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Swamps are areas of mineral-based soil, normally flooded in the growing season and in this country usually dominated by tall emergent plants such as common or Norfolk reed (Phragmites communis). The few exceptions to reedswamp communities tend to grow in rather specialised circumstances or as a reed-marsh transition in areas of the north and west...