Some important as coastal soil binders

Usage examples of cordgrass.

Even the rippling cordgrass had lost its bright sheen, looked dull in the leaden air.

I spied a nest in the cordgrass there yesterday and this morning I stole four eggs.

We spend the next weeks moving in and out of the cordgrass, disturbing the fiddler crabs, who brandish their colorful outsized claws in warning.

And when I am tempted to speak, I turn my attention to the black snails that feed on the algae covering the cordgrass, to the clam worms as big as small snakes that feed on dead razor clams, to the ribbed mussels that poke halfway out of the mud.

I heard it when I labored with Philoctetes in the cordgrass, building his ill-fated boat.

A wan light was illuminating the low undulating landscape of drab, damp cordgrass, revealing miserable-looking terrestrial cows and herds of the local bovine nygine.

Then he splashes his way into the marsh, thwacking the cordgrasses aside with the back of his arm.

Ghostly vegetative blooms ripple on the sandstone ridges in a nocturnal wind-foxtail, bitter dock, cordgrass, and yarrow-the profuse flora of the spores carried across the shoreless dark from the blue star that is Earth.

Cordgrass grew where land was wetter, needlegrass in cooler areas with poor, gravelly b.

A barrier of tough, five-foot-high prairie cordgrass was mixed with what might have been goatsbeard and massive clumps of aureola.