A grasslike marsh plant with a slender spike of tiny flowers.
水麦冬
Genus Triglochin, family Juncaginaceae
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Levees supported high densities of Triglochin palustris (arrowgrass), which was an important food for growing geese.
Species of arrowgrass that poison livestock are widely distributed in marshy pastures and native grass hay areas throughout the United States.
Very precious are two populations of marsh violets: the creeping violet and the fen violet, as well as a whole group of peatbog plants with the mud sedge, round leaf and long leaf sundew, arrowgrass, Buxbaum sundew, and crested wood fern.
Other species favouring this habitat are horsetail and arrowgrass.
Low tide exposes many characteristic saltmarsh plants that provide a vegetarian menu, which is equally vital for the birds, including sea arrowgrass, scurvy grass and sea lavender.