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2 unusual facts about Salt marsh


Merse

A Scottish name for Salt marsh, an environment periodically flooded by sea water

Salt marsh

There have been many attempts made to eradicate these problems for example, in New Zealand, the cordgrass Spartina anglica was introduced from England into the Manawatu River mouth in 1913 to try and reclaim the estuary land for farming.



see also

Buzurg

Kavir Buzurg, (meaning great salt marsh), lies in the centre of the Dasht-e Kavir, which is a desert located in the middle of the Iranian plateau

Irving Nature Park

It encompasses a total of 243 hectares (600 acres) and is sandwiched between a salt marsh and the Bay of Fundy.

Iva frutescens

This species provides habitat for salt marsh animals such as the Marsh Wren.

Nerodia clarkii

A third subspecies, the Atlantic salt marsh snake (N. c. taeniata), is restricted to a small stretch of coastline in Volusia and Indian River Counties, Florida.

Populations of the Gulf salt marsh snake (N. c. clarkii) from the vicinity of Corpus Christi, Texas, to the Gulf Hammock region of Florida are gray, tan or yellow with four brown to black longitudinal stripes.

Omana Regional Park

Kanuka can be found on the slopes of the Te Puru creek (the estuarine Mangrove salt marsh).

Water-hemp

Amaranthus cannabinus - salt-marsh water-hemp, tidal-marsh water-hemp or water-hemp pigweed