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August 2008[edit]

How about the following:

Pocosin

A pocosin, thought (citation needed) to be derived from an Algonquin phrase for "swamp on a hill," is an evergreen shrub bog found on the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Virginia to northern Florida but are dominant in eastern North Carolina (Mitsch WJ, Gosselink JG. 1993. Wetlands, Second Edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, USA. pg. 55.).

Pocosins are found "growing on water-logged, acid, nutrient poor, sandy or peaty soils located on broad, flat topographic plateaus, usually removed from large streams and subject to periodic burning (Richardson, C.J., R. Evans, and D. Carr. 1981. Pocosins: an ecosystem in transition. in Pocosin Wetlands. C.J. Richardson, ed., Hutchinson Ross Publishing Co., Stroudsburg, Pa. pp. 3-19.).

In successional progression and in nutrient-poor acid conditions, pocosins resemble bogs and, in fact, were classified as such in the 1954 National Wetland Survey (Shaw, S.P., and C.G. Fredine. 1956. Wetlands of the United States, Their Extent, and Their Value for Waterfowl and Other Wildlife. U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Circular 39. Washington, D.C., 67p.).

In North Carolina, Richardson et. al. (1981) described the typical pocosin ecosystem as being dominated by evergreen shrubs (Cyrilla racemiflora, Magnolia virginiana, Persea borbonia, Ilex glabra, Myrica herterophylla, and Smilax laurifolia) and pine (Pinus serotina).

Longleaf pines are upland species that may grow on sand ridges near pocosins, but longleaf pines are not wetland plants and do not generally grow in wetlands.--Manos Lijeros (talk) 16:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

February 2011[edit]

I have located some additional references and used them to source and expand the article. Could still use some more work (maybe split into sections discussing native flora and fauna). Cjmclark ^(Contact) 20:46, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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