Spartina

Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

Van Heerden's assessment team showed me around Casse-tete Island in Timbalier Bay, where new shoots of spartina grasses were sprouting in oiled marshes, and new leaves were growing on the first black mangroves I had ever seen that were actually black. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The roots of spartina grass help hold the marsh soil and provide a footing for oysters and ribbed mussels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A soft, warm breeze rustled the sea oats and gracefully swayed the spartina grass, making ripples in the still waters that stretched in a half-moon around them. ❋ Bruhns, Nina (2007)

The narrow wooden jetty behind the Inn stretched at least a hundred feet out into the sparkling inlet, past the shallows where the spartina and sea oats swayed near the shore and out into deeper water where you could tie up a boat or do some fishing if you were so inclined. ❋ Bruhns, Nina (2007)

On both sides, spartina and needlerush arrowed from sparkling amber toward an immaculate blue sky. ❋ Reichs, Kathy (2006)

He recalled that after the 1974 spill the beach grasses, called spartina, which had grown like luxuriant matting along the shore, died. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That's what's happened in the marshes of the Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area near Freeport, where high sa linities have killed much of the seashore paspalum (jointgrass) and spartina patens (wiregrass/marshhay) that carpet the marsh, as well as wigeongrass and other aquatic vegetation that grow in the normally brackish water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indian River Lagoon and the Atlantic coastline, the soil in many places is so infused with salt from the area's underground aquifer that even the salt-tolerant spartina won't grow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is certain that some of the heavily oiled spartina in Louisiana will die. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dominant plant species in coastal Louisiana is the spartina, better known as smooth cordgrass or salt-marsh cordgrass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The vast expanses of this spartina grass in the refuge are thick and regularly grow to ❋ Unknown (2010)

Green spartina grass swayed in the breeze one recent day as barn swallows skimmed by. ❋ Unknown (2010)