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cordgrass /ˈkɔːdɡrɑːs /noun [mass noun]A coarse wiry coastal grass which is sometimes used to stabilize mudflats.- Genus Spartina, family Gramineae.
Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges (Scirpus americana and Carex sp.), with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks....- The river channel meanders through wide tidal freshwater marshes of cattail and sedges (Carex spp. and Scirpus spp.), with stands of saltmarsh cordgrass along the upper banks.
- Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, both species feed exclusively on the phloem sap of cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora.
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