Spartina

There is a nonnative salt marsh plant, Spartina, that is threatening to disrupt native saltwater ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington 2008

Here in coastal Georgia, nearly 90% of the marsh is covered by one species of plant, smooth cordgrass, known as Spartina alterniflora.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia 2008

The vegetation on her shoes was identified as Spartina alterniflora.

The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003

The project targets a cordgrass called Spartina densiflora that dominates large tracts of Humboldt Bay and the Eel and Mad river estuaries.

SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

The project targets a cordgrass called Spartina densiflora that dominates large tracts of Humboldt Bay and the Eel and Mad river estuaries.

Examiner California Headlines 2010

They could do that by regularly pruning the Phragmites and native salt marsh cordgrass called Spartina that grow in the mudflats along the Hackensack River to help stimulate more growth.

Latest News 2009

Set on the Rhode Island coastline west of Narragansett Bay, called South County by its locals, the novel is the sequel to Casey 's "Spartina," which won the National Book Award in 1989.

Volatile Human Relations in a Capricious World Donna Rifkind 2010

Where "Spartina" was a romance with a strong male point of view — a kind of "Young Lobsterman and the Sea," with added virility in the form of an extramarital affair — "Compass Rose" develops through the perspectives of the women in Dick Pierce 's life: his wife, May; his girlfriend, Elsie; and his illegitimate daughter, Rose.

Volatile Human Relations in a Capricious World Donna Rifkind 2010

Laguncularia racemosa is found along the seaward edge mixed with the salt marsh species such as Spartina brasiliensis and Avicennia germinans.

Guianan mangroves 2008

Book review: 'Compass Rose': John Casey's sequel to the 'Spartina' story

The Seattle Times 2010