coastal marsh
Seaside soggy ground
A coastal marsh is a wetland area along a shoreline where grasses, reeds, and other vegetation grow in shallow, often brackish water.
These transitional zones between land and sea absorb storm surges, filter pollutants, and serve as nurseries for fish and wildlife.
The coastal marsh teemed with herons and fiddler crabs.
- mudflatExposed shore sediment
- mud flatCoastal sediment exposed tidally
- rushesMoves very quickly
- sedgesGrasslike wetland plants
- grassesMonocot blade plants
bulrush · brackish · intertidal zone · spartina · carbon sink · mangroves · fiddler crab · blue crab · cattail · heron · egret · wading bird · glasswort · sea lavender · estuary · bayou · flood mitigation · erosion prevention
- natural habitatsforest, jungle, swamp, wetland, coral reef
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marshes, marshland, marshlands
- Tidal Wetlandssalt marshes, cordgrass, tidal flats, mudflat, tidal creeks
- estuariesbrackish water, tidal flats, mud flat, tidal creek, mudflat
- ecosystemsrainforest, forest, desert, jungle, ocean
- British Wildlifered deer, badgers, grey squirrel, foxes, otter
coastal marshdesert
To leave behind completely
sand dune · mountain peak · savanna · steppe
coastal marshdesert
To leave behind completely
dry forest · alpine tundra · chaparral · rocky outcrop · hardwood forest