Plants found in saltwater marshes include such salt-tolerant species as eel grass and cord grass.

Spartina pectinata (prairie cord grass)

In the distance, a long-legged, great blue heron prances through the cord grass in search of the pugnacious and tasty blue crab.

One acre of the Georgia marsh produces about 17 tons of new grass each year, most ot that the smooth cord grass.

The Eco-Killer's eighth victim, she's survived fifty-six hours in hundred-degree heat, burning sun, and parching salt, by chewing cord grass and coating herself in protective mud.

They appeared to have found their quarry: several layers of white sediment buried in the ancient muck under the thatch of cord grass.

Marsh wrens rasped complaints at our passing, and darted in and out among the cord grass and cattails.

In its place grows cord grass, a shorter variety that usually is found farther out from the high tide mark.

I admit that watching horses eat cord grass is not like watching grizzlies feed on salmon in Alaska.

Rounding a point, we chugged toward the clumps of cord grass and glimpsed in the background a couple of barrier islands.