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The spartina alterniflora, shown here in the background, grows on the edge of the deep streams through the marsh where it is inundated with salt water by the twice daily high tides. Eventually it raises the level of the marsh floor to a point where the floor is above the reach of the twice daily tide. Then the spartina patens takes over. It is shown here in the foreground in characteristic windrows.
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