These are the mudflats that the alien spartina we have introduced is now turning to meadows. |
Determined to get a river view, I climbed a high bank and looked across windswept spartina grass. |
The Tuckerton Peninsula forms a large expanse of highly inundated Spartina alterniflora salt marsh habitat along the southern New Jersey coast. |
So does listening to the warbling trills of red-winged blackbirds that call across the endless spartina grass that all seems to grow to exactly the same height. |
Ribbed mussels, green algae and species of brown algae are often seen at the base of the mats of Spartina. |
Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, both species feed exclusively on the phloem sap of cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora. |