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Plate 21.— Classification: system Estuarine, subsystem Intertidal, CLASS Emergent Wetland, SUBCLASS Persistent, dominance 

 TYPE Scirpus americanus, water regime Regularly Flooded, water chemistry Mixohaline, soil Organic. Subordinate species 

 include saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina patens) and saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora); these appear as a fringe at the 

 water's edge. (Dorchester County, Maryland; June 1974; Photo by V. Carter) 



