Top 5 Tidal Brackish/Salt Water Wetland Plants

Salicornia depressa

• Grows independently, unlike its clumped counterpart (S. virginica)
• Can serve as snack food
• Generally one of the first colonizers when re-establishing or reclaiming 

Juncus gerardii

• Usually dead by mid-season, and is black/brown
• Very thin and lots of it!

Spartina patens

• Shorter of the two spartinas
• Easily confused with Distichliss spicata

Spartina alterniflora

• Two forms, short and tall
• Tops are sharp
• Common in high marsh plots

Phragmites australis

• Invasive to North America
• First recorded in the United States in the 1600s
• Common on the sides of highways
• Control mechanisms are in research