Potential conservation areas are wetlands. Wetlands shall mean those areas that are
inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and a duration sufficient
to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soils. Soils present in wetlands generally
are classified as hydric or alluvial, or possess characteristics that are associated
with reducing soil conditions. The prevalent vegetation in wetlands generally consists
of facultative or obligate hydrophytic macrophytes that are typically adapted to areas
having soil conditions described above. These species, due to morphological, physiological,
or reproductive adaptations, have the ability to grow, reproduce, or persist in aquatic
environments or anaerobic soil conditions. Florida wetlands generally include swamps,
marshes, bayheads, bogs, cypress domes and strands, sloughs, wet prairies, riverine
swamps and marshes, hydric seepage slopes, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps and other
similar areas. Florida wetlands generally do not include longleaf or slash pine flatwoods
with an understory dominated by saw palmetto. The landward extent of wetlands and
surface waters shall be delineated pursuant to the unified statewide methodology codified
as Chapter 62-340, Fla. Admin. Code.
