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Plate 11.— Classification: system Estuarine, subsystem Intertidal, class Streambed, subclass Mud, water regime Regularly 

 Flooded, water chemistry Mixohaline. This photo was taken at low tide; at high tide, the entire channel is flooded. The channel 

 is flanked by irregularly flooded persistent-emergent wetland supporting such plants as: lyme grass (Elymus arenarius), beach 

 lovage (Ligusticum scothicum), silverweed (Potentilla anserina), sedges (Carex ramenskii, C. bipartita), ovalleaf willow (Salix 

 ovalifolia), and Arctic daisy (Dendrantkema arctieum). This site lies 100 m from Angyoyaravak Bay, on the Bering Sea. (Tutakoke 

 River area, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska; July 1985; Photo by F. C. Golet) 



