How has plants adapted to windy climates or bog-land?

Hey!

In what ways to plants adapt to windy or boggy areas? On the internet, there's tons on desert plants adaptions, but few on windy or boggy area adaptions.

If anyone could help me out i'd be grateful :D

How has plants adapted to windy climates or bog-land?
Bogs are very commonly acidic in nature due to the fact that they are usually watered by rain, which is slightly acidic. An adaptation therefore by some plants like sphagnum moss or heather is to have the ability to grow in this acidic environment. In addition to the acidity most bogs are deficient in essential nutrients for the healthy growth of some plants and these plants, butterwort, sundew and venus flytrap for example, have evolved methods of trapping and ingesting insects to supplement their nutrition. Other plants have evolved ways to survive in wet environments without rotting, blueberries and birch for example.



Adaptation against wind is usually in two forms to combat the two difficulties of living in a windy environment. First, the tendency to be blown out of the soil. This has been overcome in some cases by evolving a dwarf habit and laying close to the ground. This can be seen in dwarf birch and other plants in the Tundra regions.

Secondly, the tendency of wind to dessicate the plant. Grasses are able to curl their leaves to reduce the evaporation of water from the stomata under the leaves, cacti have developed a different strategy whereby the stomata are set in pits or reduced in number to counteract the same problem.

A positive adaptation that some plants have evolved is seed dispersal by wind, most commonly seen in grasses but also very common in a wide range of other plants, dandelion, sycamore, clematis and hornbeam for example.



There's a start for you, I hope that helps.
Reply:In windy area's they all lean to the side. In boggy area's, well I stay out of boggy area's.
Reply:i would think long, securely anchored in roots that stop the plant being lifted out of the ground in windy areas.



flexible branches and leaves so that they don't snap when blown around.



boggy areas - maybe thicker outside layers that don't rot?