Monie Bay - Chesapeake Bay, MD

Flora (Plant Life)

Overall, the salt marsh vegetation is characteristic of East Coast mid-salinity regimes. Low marsh zones are dominated by smooth cordgrass, while high marsh areas feature salt cordgrass and big cordgrass, salt and three square grass, needlerush and marsh elder. Some areas of higher ground, such as St. Peter's Marsh, form islands of pine trees within the marsh. Dense beds of widgeon grass, a type of submerged aquatic vegetation, have been reported in Little Monie Creek.

Upland vegetation within the component consists principally of loblolly pine, which dominates the canopy, while wax myrtle and greenbrier occupy the shrub layer. Poison ivy covers many of the trees and grasses dominate the herbaceous zone. These areas are wet and sometimes act as buffers between previously logged areas and marshes at the component boundaries.

Monie Creek

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