Beach Tea

Coastal Habitats

Plant Life on the Salt Marsh

beach tea

Beach tea

Croton punctatus

Beach tea shrubs spread their silvery leaves low over Gulf Coast dunes and into the marshes.

Because they can't cope with salt water as well as some of the other marsh plants, these shrubs grow only in the high end of the marsh where the roots of earlier palants have trapped enough mud to raise the land about the high tide line.

Plant Life on the Salt Marsh

 

Animal Life on the Salt Marsh

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