That a salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salty or brackish water, which is dominated by dense stands of halophytic (salt-tolerant) plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs? These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. Salt marshes play a large role in the aquatic food web and the exporting of nutrients to coastal waters. They also provide support to terrestrial animals such as migrating birds as well as providing coastal protection. (From Wikipedia)
Salt marshes are also beautiful any time of year, and are often photographed and painted, wherever they are found. This particular salt marsh is on Plum Island, looking toward the refuge, which hosts and supports an amazing array of migrating birds.
E.J. Lefavour
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Good Morning Gloucester 
Nice painting of [i]spartina alterniflora[/i]. I would now like to thank my UMass botany professor Paul Godfrey for taking his Coastal Plant Ecology class to Plum Island in 1977 and pounding the names of about 50 plant species into our brains. Some of them are still stuck in there.
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spartina alterniflora
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Love the painting!
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Having lived in Savannah for a few years, this painting made me feel somehow, that I was looking at a specific place
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Hi Tony,
It is the salt marsh at the Parker River on Plum Island in Newburyport. I’ve never been to Savannah, but love salt marshes, and they are all over the North Shore
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