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What does cordgrass mean?

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  1. Any of various species of coastal wetland grass in the genus Spartina.
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Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, both species feed exclusively on the phloem sap of cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora.
Efforts are now being made to remove these cordgrass species, as the damages are slowly being recognised.
For example, cattails, bulrushes, cordgrass, sphagnum moss, bald cypress, willows, mangroves, sedges, rushes, arrowheads, and water plantains usually occur in wetlands.
When we arrived in the marsh, tussocks of cordgrass and black need-lerush poked up here and there from the glassy water.
The intertidal zone is also a good place to find plant life in the sea, where mangroves or cordgrass or beach grass might grow.
Prairie cordgrass dominated some areas of wet prairie, especially in the northern parts of the site, whereas bluejoint and muhly grass dominated others.

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