The Shearstown Estuary - Animal and Plant Life |
Plants OF THE SHEARSTOWN ESTUARY |
Aquatic
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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Photo |
Eelgrass
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Zostera marina |
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| Widgeongrass |
Ruppia maritime |
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Beach |
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Sea-rocket |
Cakile edentula |
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| Oysterleaf
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Mertensia maritime
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| Butter and Eggs |
Linaria vulgaris |
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| Climbing False |
Polygonum scandens |
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| Yarrow |
Achillea millefolium |
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| Buckwheat |
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| Black Knapweed
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Centaurea nigra |
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| Curled Dock |
Rumex crispus |
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| Stinking Groundsel |
Senecio viscous |
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| Scotch Lovage
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Ligusticum scothicum
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| Seaside Plantain
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Salicornia europaea
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| Glasswort
|
Salicornia europaea
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| Salt marsh/ Silverweed
|
Potentilla anserine
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Salt Marsh / Shoreline
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| Silverweed |
Potentilla anserine
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| White Spruce |
Picea glauca
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| Saltmarsh Sedge
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Carex plaeacea
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| Black Grass
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Juncus gerardi
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| Field Sow-Thistle
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Sonchus arvensis
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| Vetchling |
Atriplex patula |
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| Orache |
Pseudopleuronectes americanus |
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| Spikerush |
Eleocharis sp.
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| Scotch Lovage |
Ligusticum scothicum
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| Seaside Plantain |
Plantago juncoides |
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| Glasswort |
Salicornia europaea |
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| Pasture Rose |
Rosa sp.
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• Birds of the Estuary • Aquatic Life of the Estuary
• Plants of the Estuary
For further information contact:
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture Department of Environment and Conservation
Wildlife Division
Town of Spaniard's Bay
Email: spaniardsbay@persona.ca
Town of Bay Roberts
Email: info@bayroberts.co
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Local Joint Management Committee
Mose Anthony: 709-786-2361
Patricia George: 709-786-1292
Cathy Kleinwort: 709-786-9829
Bill Seymour: 709-786-7423
Contact your JMC members to make a monetary donation or to
volunteer your time and skills to projects that will improve the
local ecosystem of the Shearstown Estuary
Telephone:
(709) 786-2126 Fax: (709) 786-2128
E-mail: info@bayroberts.com
© 2002, Town of Bay Roberts
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