Plants

Eelgrass is a grass that can survive in salt water. It can survive outside of water when the tide goes out and it is used for medicines. Eelgrass is also known as zostera marina. Eelgrass looks green, long, and skinny with a different shade of green. This plant lives in title creeks and estuaries. Eelgrass is found in sandy spots of estuaries. Eelgrass needs water to survive. Eelgrass has long, bright, green, little, ribbon leaves. Scallops, clown fish, and crabs depend on it for a home, protection of their young, and food.



California Bulrush We are doing a plant called Bulrush a.k.a Schoenoplectus Californicus. The California Bulrush looks like long grass that's like a weed in a group and have tannish yellow flower that produces seeds, the stem of the bulrush plant is very soft. The California Bulrush plant lives mostly off the coast of California. The Bulrush plant eats the minerals from the decomposing animals in the mud. Many things depend on the California Bulrush for cooking, and eating. Many insects eat the roots of the California Bulrush to survive. This plant lives here because there is many nutrients in the estuary. It is very moist in the estuary so it is very easy easy for the Bulrush to grow there. The California Bulrush will only spread in deep water there it will spread like crazy and almost cover the whole estuary.

The [|Marsh grass]is a ornamental grass that can be about eighteen to twenty feet in diameter. This marsh grass can grow up to three to four feet tall from the ground up the texture wiry leaves form a fountain spray pattern. Marsh grass is considered a [|wet land]. Another name for marsh grass is reeds. The marsh grass is a hardy plant and has underground structures. If there is a storm the marsh land acts as a wall against a tsunami so if there is a cliff that is getting eroded away grass will keep the dirt in the same place. In 1970 they started the [|Coastal Marshlands Protection Act] in the state of Georgia. This act was made so that the estuarine area was protected. It allowed the residents and visitors of Georgia to be able to fish, boat and enjoy the marshland. If they want to build anything they have to have a permit.