Plant Adaptations

Pickleweed (Salicornia virginia) and Goosefoot (Subfamily: Chenopodioideae) loves saltwater (halophytic) and lives full-time in the salt marsh or along the saline soils.  It collects all the salt from the water and draws it up to its tip, then drops the red colored tip or flower when full.  Cordgrass (Spartina foliosa) also a halophyte, is nesting material used by Ridgeways Rails (Rallus obsoletus) an endangered bird found in the bay.