Watershed Habitats – High Marsh

The High Marsh…a foot makes all the difference

In the Inland Bays a foot of elevation can make all the difference. A little higher in marsh, salt marsh hay, once used for livestock grows, and inches higher, groundsel bush, marsh elder, and bayberry form a shrubby zone that thickens into maritime forest edged with red cedar, loblolly pine, red maple and American Holly.

A Grounsel bush in the high marsh

Bayberry bush

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