This and a nearby plant were the first seabeach amaranth seen in more than 30 years. |
|
It was seabeach amaranth, a once-abundant Northeastern species now on the federal threatened list. |
|
The threatened seabeach amaranth, a low-growing, waxy-leaved plant with reddish stems, sprouts intermittently above the high tide line. |
|
The seabeach amaranth, a plant that had not been seen in New Jersey since 1913, has reappeared in large numbers all along the coast, and scientists are not sure why. |
|
Current threats to seabeach amaranth restoration may be competing plants such as the nonnative Asiatic sand sedge and the native American beachgrass. |
|
Seabeach amaranth typically occurs on sparsely vegetated areas such as interdunal flats, overwash flats, lower foredunes, and points of non-eroding beaches. |
|