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swamp

an area of wooded wet ground, often flooded, in which peat development does not normally occur.

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Everyone needs to know that Acer Rubrum, also known as Red Maple or Swamp Maple, is toxic to horses--bark and leaves.

Prized for the gorgeous red fall foliage that gives it its name, red maple--also known as swamp maple or scarlet maple--is one of the most widely distributed trees in eastern North America.

The colorful red maple

Even as she and Vick struggled to drag down grapevines and cut out saplings and deadwood on the overgrown two-acre tract of oak, hickory, swamp maple, dogwood, and redbud, she was seeing a less tangled landscape.