COASTAL SALINE AREAS 
1S. Salt Flats. 
Soil almost always waterlogged 
during the growing season; 
sites varying from those sub- 
merged only by occasional wind 
tides to others that are 
covered fairly regularly with 
a few inches of water at high 
tide, 

Coastal salt flats; Type 15. 
Located along the Atlantic, Gulf, 
and Pacific coasts, on the landward side of, or as islands” or. 
basins within, salt meadows and salt marshes, 
Vegetation (often sparse or patchy) mainly of glassworts, seablite, 
saltgrass and, in the South, of saltflat grass and saltwort, 
Used very little ordinarily but sometimes, when flooded, used much 
by feeding ducks, geese, and shorebirds. 
16, Salt Meadows, 
Soil always waterlogged during 
the growing season; rarely 
covered with tide water. 
Located along the Atlantic, 
Gulf, and Pacific coasts, on 
the landward side of salt 
marshes or bordering open 
water, Salt meadows; Type 16. 

Vegetation on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts mainly saltmeadow cord-= 
grass, saltgrass, blackrush and, in fresher parts, Olney three- 
Square and saltmarsh fleabanes; on the Pacific coast, carex, 
hairgrass, and jaumea, 
Used a little by various mammals and birds, including geese, 
17. irregularly Flooded Salt Marshes. 
Soil covered by wind tides at irregular intervals during the 
growing season, 
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