Hays Creek Estuary/ --- Puccinellia Association

The Turf grass association (B) is intertidally above Vaucheria (A).
Again this is a tightly interwoven fabric of roots just below the surface. Suspect clumps al genetically same individual.

This grass is widespread and appears to be stabilizing the mud surface. The genus is a guess, the species (P. nutkaensis) based on ligule's shape and Pojar & MacKinnon's description,

	Puccinellia nutkaensis(?) see Plants Coastal BC p 281

Uniseriate green algae (Rhizoclonium? Chaetomorpha? both?) are entangled and held by grass blades on mud surface--- Will be treated later date.

A = Vaucheria-- a mat of Xanthophyte algae that binds the soil
B= Puccinellia grass (turf)
C= Sedges forming carpets
D= Silverweed beds upper mudflat perennials
E= Algal mats (when they can escape the fast currents)
Mya Arenaria soft shelled Clam (burrowing in mud habitat)