Palustrine wetland

[2] Wetlands within this category include inland marshes and swamps as well as bogs, fens, pocosins, tundra and floodplains.

According to the Cowardin classification system, palustrine wetlands can also be considered the area on the side of a river or a lake, as long as they are covered by vegetation such as trees, shrubs, and emergent plants.

This system was created by Lewis Cowardin and others from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1987.

[1] The other systems are: Plaustrine wetland are also considered one of 25 functional biomes in the global ecosystem typology adopted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

This different groups of vegetation are aquatic bed, emergent, scrub-shrub, and forested.