Usage examples (37)

• The vegetation on her shoes was identified as Spartina alterniflora.
• There is a nonnative salt marsh plant, Spartina, that is threatening to disrupt native saltwater ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.
• Here in coastal Georgia, nearly 90% of the marsh is covered by one species of plant, smooth cordgrass, known as Spartina alterniflora.
• The project targets a cordgrass called Spartina densiflora that dominates large tracts of Humboldt Bay and the Eel and Mad river estuaries.