The Atchafalaya Basin, the surrounding plain of the river, is filled with bayous, bald cypress swamps, and marshes that give way to more brackish estuarine conditions and end in the Spartina grass marshes, near and at where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.
The Invasive Spartina Project is a coordinated regional effort among local, state and federal organizations dedicated to preserving California's extraordinary coastal biological resources through the elimination of introduced species of Spartina.
Most targets in competitive archery use some kind of stalks of grain or grass and may be constructed of marsh grass woven into a rope then wrapped around into a target.
Spartina bakeri, the sand cordgrass, a plant species in the genus Spartina
The island also has one of the most northerly and largest occurrences of Spartina salt marshes in eastern North America.
Sand Bay - an area in the UK where Spartina grass planted to support a river bank has spread.
Spartina alterniflora | Spartina | Spartina bakeri | Spartina anglica | Spartina maritima |
The introduction of the strong-growing smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) has also had deleterious effects.