Plants of Southern New Jersey

Photos by Renee Brecht

Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River

Vegetation of the Salt and Brackish Marshes of Southern New Jersey

	Agalinis maritima seaside gerardia	Althaea officinalis marsh mallow
	Atriplex patula marsh orache or spearscale	Baccharis halimifolia groundsel tree
	Distichlis spicata Salt grass or spike grass	Iva frutescens marsh elder
	Juncus gerardi black grass	Limonium carolinianum sea lavender
	Phragmites australis common reed INVASIVE	Pluchea odorata marsh fleabane
	Sabatia dodecandra large marsh pink	Sabatia stellaris marsh pink
	Salicornia bigelovii dwarf glasswort	Salicornia maritima slender glasswort
NO IMAGE AVAILABLE	Salicornia virginica woody glasswort	Schoenoplectus maritimus salt marsh bulrush
	Solidago sempervirens seaside goldenrod	Spartina patens salt meadow grass or salt hay grass
	#Spartina alterniflora smooth cordgrass or saltwater cordgrass	Spartina cynosuroides big cordgrass or salt reed grass
	Symphyotrichum subulatum annual salt marsh aster	Symphyotrichum tenuifolium perennial salt marsh aster
	Suaeda maritima sea blite	Typhya angustifolia narrow leaved cattail

Plant listings based on Tiner's Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States (see Sources, below) and the http://www.plants.usda.gov database.

Image Credits

Image credits, unless otherwise noted:

Renee Brecht, Former Associate Director, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc.

Line drawings, unless otherwise noted:

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possesions.

#USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC.

Sources:

Newcomb-Jones, Carol. Salt Marsh Flowers of Southern New Jersey. Self-published, 1996.

Stone, Witmer. The Plants of Southern New Jersey. Quartermen Publications, Inc. Boston, Mass. Reprinted 1973 from 1911 The Plants of Southern New Jersey with Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species.

Tiner, Ralph W., Jr. A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States. University of Massachusetts Press. 1987.

USDA, NRCS. 2008. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 12 August 2008). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.