spartina

IPA: spɑrtˈinʌ

Examples of "spartina" in Sentences

Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.
On both sides, spartina and needlerush arrowed from sparkling amber toward an immaculate blue sky.
The roots of spartina grass help hold the marsh soil and provide a footing for oysters and ribbed mussels.
The dominant plant species in coastal Louisiana is the spartina, better known as smooth cordgrass or salt-marsh cordgrass.
A soft, warm breeze rustled the sea oats and gracefully swayed the spartina grass, making ripples in the still waters that stretched in a half-moon around them.
Van Heerden's assessment team showed me around Casse-tete Island in Timbalier Bay, where new shoots of spartina grasses were sprouting in oiled marshes, and new leaves were growing on the first black mangroves I had ever seen that were actually black.
The narrow wooden jetty behind the Inn stretched at least a hundred feet out into the sparkling inlet, past the shallows where the spartina and sea oats swayed near the shore and out into deeper water where you could tie up a boat or do some fishing if you were so inclined.