Spartina Sunrise
South Carolina, USA
The sun rises over the spartina-dominated salt marsh.
Smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) is a native grass that is pervasive in South Carolina’s half a million acres of salt estuaries and coastal zones. It thrives in wet salt marshes under full sun, and can grow up to five feet tall. Spartina protects the shore from erosion, filters pollutants from entering the ocean, and can spread and become a monoculture meadow. It forms a sheltered habitat for juvenile fish and crustaceans, and its seeds are a food resource for some songbirds.
Photo © copyright by Dr. Edward Mikol.
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