One way many plants have adapted to this condition is by having hollow tubes. These tubes carry oxygen from the air down to the roots. Through the process of photosynthesis, plants take energy from the sun along with carbon dioxide and water and combine them to form sugar, oxygen, and water. But plants also consume oxygen, just as humans do. Each plant cell, just like each human cell, performs the process called respiration.
Plants take in oxygen and use the sugar to create carbon dioxide and water.
This process releases energy, so plants can live and grow. Another way plants have adapted to live in wetlands is by reproducing with rhizomes . Rhizomes are underground shoots from the stem of a plant that are connected to the root system and used for reproduction. The new plants will be genetically identical to the parents. Reproduction by rhizomes is typically done when the parent plant is under stress.