How To Use Cordgrass In A Sentence
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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.
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Snails graze in abundance on sick and dying cordgrass.
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Located on a cordgrass marsh, the house rests on random pilings that blend in with the pine grove.
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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.
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Once upon a time I came across a night heron nesting in the cordgrass.
Lance Mannion:
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Once there, the gastropods use their belt of serrated teeth, called radula, to slice the living cordgrass.
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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
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Salt marshes are the most prevalent types of tidal marshes and are characterized by salttolerant plants such as smooth cordgrass, saltgrass, and glasswort.
Wetland
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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.
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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.
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The golden and magenta sunrise highlights the background, silhouetting the graceful cordgrass as it dances in the biting wind, and reflecting shards of sparkling light on the glassy water.
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Additionally, a Department of Defense project at SDSU is working to produce jet fuels from biomass such as prairie cordgrass.
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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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And on the science pages we look into cordgrass and wiregrass - two tough inhabitants of the Lousiana coastal marshes.
Welcome to the 6 August edition
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The intertidal marsh in North Inlet is dominated by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), while the high marsh community contains a mix of species, including smooth cordgrass, black needlerush, sea oxeye, salt grass, salt hay, salt marsh fimbristylis, glassworts, marsh elder and others.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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They are cordgrass and wiregrass, common species that wave in the winds in south Louisiana's coastal marshes.
How oil-damaged marsh grasses recover could affect gulf's rebound
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Coastal prairies are often dominated by sawgrass Cladium jamaicensis, a type of sedge, muhley grass Muhlenbergia filipes, or cordgrass Spartina spp. in coastal areas.
Everglades National Park, United States
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It is distinct from the Appalachian oak forest that dominated the mesic uplands of Ecoregion 84d, and the northern cordgrass prairie that occurs along tidal channels in Ecoregion 84c.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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But the paddle alone is worth it: The islands in this part of Chesapeake Bay sit two or three miles apart, most of them just long, narrow strips of cordgrass and sand so small that they aren't mapped.
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Drought, salinity, heat and low sediment discharges from rivers have killed cordgrass in Louisiana and caused marshes to brown.
Susan Buchanan: Pre-Spill, Coastal Threats Cannot Be Ignored, Environmentalists Say
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Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges (Scirpus americana and Carex sp.), with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks.
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When the light is low, usually at dusk and at dawn, this shy bird emerges from the cordgrass at the edges of the marsh to feed on invertebrates in the mudflats during low tide.
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Brackish marsh species include giant cordgrass (Spartina cynosuroides), salt marsh bulrush, common three-square, soft-stem bulrush, broadleaf cattail, arrowhead, spider-lily, salt reedgrass, reed and arrow arum.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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Observations were made on 25 dates from 19 February 2000 to 21 October 2001 on Cat Island, South Carolina, USA, in a smooth cordgrass marsh adjacent to the Beaufort River, an Atlantic coast saltwater estuary.
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Only endless acres of cordgrass and brackish water.
Unspeakable
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Those ponds once hosted vegetation like cordgrass, gumplant and salty, bitter pickleweed, which in turn provide homes for rails and the salt marsh harvest mouse, also listed as endangered.
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So there's at least a fair chance participants will see a few squads of bluewing teal darting over the cordgrass or hear the laughing call of early-arriving white-fronted geese.
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Periwinkle snails ordinarily live in ecological harmony with salt marshes, eating only dead cordgrass and a fungus that grows on the plants.
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Vegetation in the creekbank zone of Sweet Hall Marsh includes arrow arum, smooth cordgrass, big cordgrass, smartweeds, rice cutgrass, wild rice, water hemp, water dock, Walter's millet and marsh milkweed.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Virginia
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Jones pointed to degradation of Gulf wetlands, especially cordgrass marsh, as hurting minnows.
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats
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A swarm of small ducks - blue-winged teal - bores low over the cordgrass before tumbling into a shallow marsh pond where they float at rest after enjoying a pre-dawn meal of rice from a nearby field.
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Topminnows that remain are found mainly in the region's brackish water in cordgrass marsh.
Susan Buchanan: The Gulf's Ocean and Inland Fish Face Multiple Threats
