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Plate 17.— Classification: system Estuarine, SUBSYSTEM Intertidal, CLASS Emergent Wetland, SUBCLASS Persistent, water 

 regime Regularly Flooded, water chemistry Mixohaline, SOIL Organic. The dominant plant is the sedge Carex lyngbyei. 

 The photo was taken at low tide. (Coos County, Oregon; May 1977) 



