Taupō Swamp is home to largely indigenous vegetation including sedges, flax, ferns, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and grasses.

Flax leaves shelter and shade the swamp providing a habitat that is favourable for eels and native fish including galaxiid species.

There are invasive plant species present that threaten the swamp including Darwin's barberry, blackberry, gorse, broom, pussy willow and Japanese honeysuckle.

[1] Taupō Swamp is home to largely indigenous vegetation including sedges, flax, ferns, shrubs, herbaceous plants, and introduced grasses.

[1] There are invasive plant species present that threaten the swamp including Darwin's barberry, Blackberry, Gorse, Broom, Pussy Willow and Japanese honeysuckle.