Fort Snelling sedge meadow

Wet or sedge meadows are wetlands composed of sedges, grasses and wildflowers growing on saturated soils.

Tussock meadow 

Spartina pectinata "Prairie cord grass"	Symphyotrichum puniceum "Red stem aster"
Lathyus palustris "Marsh pea"

Types of plants found in wet or sedge meadow wetlands

Silphium perfoliatum
"Cup plant"

 
Aster novae-angliaAster novae-angliae
"New England Aster"

Carex stricta
"Tussock sedge"

Asclepias incarnata
"Swamp milkweed"