Saltmarsh Plants at Severn Beach

Saltmarsh Plants at Severn Beach

A guide to common plants found a Severn Beach

Saltmarsh plant zonation and the Plants found within each zone.

Zone	Mud Flats	Low Marsh	Middle & Upper Marsh	Above High Water
Plants found
	Common eelgrass	Saltmarsh grass	Sea rush	Parsley dropwort
	Narrow-leaved eelgrass	Sea plantain	Mud rush	Sea couch grass
	Dwarf eelgrass	Sea arrow grass	Red fescue	Creeping bent grass
	Gut-weed	Sea aster	Grass-leaved orache	Sea club-rush
	Channel wrack	Sea milkwork	Hastate orache	Common reed
	Glasswort	Common scurvy grass	Sea purslane	Shrubby sea blite
	Cord grass	Annual sea blite	Sea pink or thrift	Sea beet
	Red alga	English scurvy grass	Lax-flowered sea-lavender	Golden samphire
	Bladder wrack	Lesser sea spurrey	Common sea-lavender	Marsh mallow
	Cord grass	Greater sea spurrey	Perennial glasswort	Sea wormwood