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Saltmarsh Plants at Severn Beach
A guide to common plants found a Severn Beach
Saltmarsh plant zonation and the Plants found within each zone.
| Zone |
Mud Flats |
Low Marsh |
Middle & Upper Marsh |
Above High Water |
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Common eelgrass |
Saltmarsh grass |
Sea rush |
Parsley dropwort |
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Narrow-leaved eelgrass |
Sea plantain |
Mud rush |
Sea couch grass |
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Dwarf eelgrass |
Sea arrow grass |
Red fescue |
Creeping bent grass |
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Gut-weed |
Sea aster |
Grass-leaved orache |
Sea club-rush |
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Channel wrack |
Sea milkwork |
Hastate orache |
Common reed |
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Glasswort |
Common scurvy grass |
Sea purslane |
Shrubby sea blite |
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Cord grass |
Annual sea blite |
Sea pink or thrift |
Sea beet |
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Red alga |
English scurvy grass |
Lax-flowered sea-lavender |
Golden samphire |
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Bladder wrack |
Lesser sea spurrey |
Common sea-lavender |
Marsh mallow |
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Cord grass |
Greater sea spurrey |
Perennial glasswort |
Sea wormwood |
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