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NY Heritage: Inland salt marsh | Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed.
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Name: NY Heritage: Inland salt marsh
Reference: Ecological Communities of New York, 2nd Ed.
Description: A wetland that occurs on saline mudflats associated with inland salt springs. The mucky substrate is permanently saturated and seasonally flooded. Vegetation is sparse, with less than 50% cover. Species diversity is low. Characteristic species are salt-tolerant plants including salt marsh bulrush (Scirpus maritimus), seaside atriplex (Atriplex patula), salt marsh sand-spurry (Spergularia marina), creeping bent grass (Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris), salt-meadow grass (Diplachne maritima), dwarf spikerush (Eleocharis parvula), and narrow-leaf cattail (Typha angustifolia). These salt springs are rare, and they usually occur within a deep or shallow emergent marsh. In New York occurrences, the surrounding marsh is usually dominated by purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria); since purple loosestrife is not very salt-tolerant, it usually does not grow in the inland salt marsh. The invasion of reedgrass (Phragmites australis) is a serious threat to this community. Data on characteristic animals are needed. Small areas of inland salt marsh are reported from saline wetlands that were artificially created. One example is a wetland bordering Wolf Creek below an old salt factory in Wyoming County; plants reported from this site include salt-meadow grass (Spartina patens), black grass (Juncus gerardii), and glasswort (Salicornia europaea). 
Accession Code: VB.CC.28689.NYHERITAGEINLAN
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 2
      Party Perspective according to: Howard, Timothy
Perspective from: 03-Dec-2004 to: ongoing
      Names:   Other: NY Heritage: Inland salt marsh