5 - Tourbières et marais

Bogs and marshes

Typologie des habitats de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Descriptif anglais

Mire communities, for the most part turfogenic, of sedges, grasses, rushes, bryophytes and their associated species; tall helophyte fringes of water bodies. Complex systems of raised bogs, blanket bogs, rich fens, acidic fens, transition mires, boreal marsh-fens, aapa, palsa and polygon mires characterized by the presence of these communities, but also including formations otherwise typical of sections 22, 31, 37, 44. Spring systems.