pocosin

The river's name is probably related to pocosin.

While the sun was still low the Dradscale widened and bled into a pocosin.

Banks Lake is a natural pocosin or sink of ancient geologic origin.

After a short stay, she took refuge in a swamp called Cabarrus Pocosin.

The word pocosin is a Native American word meaning "swamp".

It occurs in several habitat types including savanna, forest, bog, and pocosin.

The Blackwater is known for its pocosins, including the rare type called streamhead pocosin.

The word pocosin comes from an Eastern Algonquian word meaning "swamp-on-a-hill."

Poquoson (pocosin) are thick peat-filled swamps found in southeastern Virginia and North Carolina.

Sub-types include mangrove, carr, pocosin, and varzea.

Banks Lake is a natural Pocosin probably created by tidal action of the ocean and shaped by a more temperate climate thousands of years ago.

Buttonbush is a common shrub of many wetland habitats in its range, including swamps, floodplains, mangrove, pocosin, riparian zones, and moist forest understory.

The pocosin marshlands of the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula drain into the Alligator River, an important link in the intracoastal waterway.

The habitat includes many diverse types including high and low pocosin, bogs, fresh and brackish water marshes, hardwood swamps, and Atlantic White Cypress swamps.

The White Oak Pocosin is a large swamp in northern Onslow County and southern Jones County, North Carolina in the United States.

This has led to a great deal of deforestation on the peninsula in the 1980s, to the extent that only one third of the peninsula's pocosin marshlands continue to exist in their unaltered form.

The bird habitat - the westernmost section of extensive wetlands of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge - was established in 1963 and is about five miles from the proposed landing field.

The term pocosin, with its varied spellings, was a term used by the area's inhabitants to describe a low, marshy, woody place covered by water in the winter, but is dry in the summer.

Pell Mellers: Race and Memory in a Carolina Pocosin (Backintyme, 2008) combines family history and memoir in an investigation of mulatto ancestors and Union sympathizers in eastern North Carolina.

Creef shaped his boat hull from the root ball of Atlantic white cedar, also known as juniper, trees that grew along the shoreline of the pocosin wetland region of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina.

A loose definition of "pocosin" can include all shrub and forest bogs, as well as stands of Atlantic White Cypress (Chamaecyparis thyoides) and Loblolly Pine on the Atlantic Coastal Plain.

Pinus serotina (Pond Pine, Marsh Pine, Pocosin Pine) is a tree found along the Atlantic coastal plain of the eastern United States, from southern New Jersey south to Florida and west to southern Alabama.

Especially notable is the pocosin, which is fast becoming rare in the southeastern United States; also in the area are a number of forested swamps and freshwater tidal marshes, all found along the lower North Landing River and supporting numerous rare species.