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• The river channel meanders through wide tidal freshwater marshes of cattail and sedges (Carex spp. and Scirpus spp.), with stands of saltmarsh cordgrass along the upper banks.
• Snails graze in abundance on sick and dying cordgrass.
• Located on a cordgrass marsh, the house rests on random pilings that blend in with the pine grove.
• It's unfortunate that on Tuesday, the final day of the South Zone duck season, most duck hunters will watch the morning sky through a windshield or office window instead of through a screen of cordgrass along the edge of a marsh pond.
• Once upon a time I came across a night heron nesting in the cordgrass. Lance Mannion:
• Once there, the gastropods use their belt of serrated teeth, called radula, to slice the living cordgrass.
• The site's extensive salt marshes are dominated by a mixture of saltmarsh cordgrass, salt grass, black needlerush, sea ox-eye, glasswort and sea lavender. North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Salt marshes are the most prevalent types of tidal marshes and are characterized by salttolerant plants such as smooth cordgrass, saltgrass, and glasswort. Wetland
• Tidal-marsh plants like smooth cordgrass absorb wave energy and filter sediment, providing vital nursery and feeding grounds for young fish and crabs as well as food and cover for marsh birds and other animals.
• Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, both species feed exclusively on the phloem sap of cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora.