Marlow Creek

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Going past the kayak launch and through the Burning Basin takes you into Marlow Creek. Like Liverpool Cove, this creek has many freshwater marsh plants such as tuckahoe and pickerelweed in the low marsh, and wild rice and cattail further back in the high marsh. In the late summer, you may also see the pink or white blooms of the swamp rose mallow, a marsh plant that may be where Mallows Bay got its name.

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Cattails (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

Cattails (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

Wild rice blows in the breeze (Will Parson/Courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Program).

Wild rice blows in the breeze (Will Parson/Courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Program).

An aerial view of Marlow Creek (Courtesy of Kevin Olson).

An aerial view of Marlow Creek (Courtesy of Kevin Olson).

Pickerel weed has purple flowers when it blooms (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

Pickerel weed has purple flowers when it blooms (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

The long, arrow-shaped leaves of Pickerel weed (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

The long, arrow-shaped leaves of Pickerel weed (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

Swamp rose mallow, the pink flower that may have inspired the park's name (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

Swamp rose mallow, the pink flower that may have inspired the park's name (Matt McIntosh/NOAA).

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