The Tuckerton Peninsula forms a large expanse of highly inundated Spartina alterniflora salt marsh habitat along the southern New Jersey coast. |
Ecophysiological needs of the potential biomass crop Spartina townsendii Grov. |
At low tide sea oats and spartina grasses bend before the breeze. |
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. |
The spartina grass excretes salt crystals in order to survive the high salinity of sea water. |
Determined to get a river view, I climbed a high bank and looked across windswept spartina grass. |