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Like spartina alterniflora, spartina patens is a perennial and each year the top part of the plant dies and is left to provide mulch for future plant growth on the marsh, while the root part lives from year to year.
     The top part of Spartina patens is the famous "marsh hay" which early settlers on the Cape used to feed their cattle and to fertilize their fields.
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