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Plate 15.— Classification: SYSTEM Estuarine, SUBSYSTEM Intertidal, CLASS Emergent Wetland, SUBCLASS Persistent, WATER 

 REGIME Irregularly Flooded, water chemistry Mixohaline, SOIL Mineral. Dominant plants are reed (Phragmites communis) 

 and saltmeadow cordgrass [Spartina patens). Saltmarsh cordgrass {Spartina alterniflora) is a subordinate species. 

 (Washington County, Rhode Island; July 1977) 



