Salt Marsh Plants

Salt Marsh Cord Grass is the dominant grass in most E. U.S. salt marshes.

Smooth cord grass roots and ribbed mussels keep the winter waves from eroding the marsh.

Phragmites looks nice, but it can be invasive and take over the marsh.

Phragmites

Salt marsh flowers

Salt marsh shrubs

Salt Marsh Grasses

Grasses dominate most salt marshes.

Salt Hay is a common grass of the high marsh

Salt Grass is the other common grass of the high marsh

Common Reed or Phragmites is the tallest grass. The reed we see most often is native to the Old World and has become a serious weed.

Salt marsh flowers