Vegetation

Flora and vegetation

The extremely rich vegetation of the Danube Delta can be divided into floating plants (with their roots in water and their leaves above the surface), i.e. white water lilies, yellow water lilies, frog bits, marsh thistles, épis d'eau etc; riverine and floating reed islets i.e. reed - 80% of Phyragmites genus and 20% of mace reed water fern, sorrel, forget-me-nots, water hemlock etc; plants growing on land, i.e. white willows, poplars, alders, ash trees; the particular vegetation of the Danube Delta's two main reserves, namely the Letea & the Caraorman equatorial forests made up of creeping plants, grey oak trees (of which some are over 150 years old and 25 m high), elms, alder trees, white and black poplars, willows, fluffy ash trees (quite rare) etc.