Pensacola Beach: Sugar Bowl Lake

Large sand dunes are topped with a smattering of sea oats. The lake habitat has an important diversity of grasses such as widgeon grass that occurs in shallower waters. It is most common in bays and estauries and is eqaully at home in fresh and brackish waters. Widgeon grass meadows are one of the state's most ecologically valuable submersed aquatic plant communities, providing both food and ground cover for a variety of wildlife. (Source: Nelson, Gil. "Exploring Wild Northwest Florida: A Guide to Finding the Natural Areas and Wildlife of the Panhandle." ISBN 1-56164-086-7.)