Observations by farhana

Salicornia is a genus of succulent, halophyte flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae that grow in salt marshes, on beaches, and among mangroves. Salicornia species are native to North America, Europe, South Africa, and South Asia.

The harvest mouse feeds on it.

Schoenoplectus acutus, called tule /ˈtuːliː/, common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, or viscid bulrush, is a giant species of sedge in the plant family Cyperaceae, native to freshwater marshes all over North America.

Tules are grasslike perennial herbs which grow abundantly along the marshy areas of California. The term tule was derived from the Aztec tullin or tollin, which designated a grouping of plants including the common cattail, burushes, and similar plants. The term was used similarly by the Spanish to designate any such marshland plant.

There are some seventeen species in California with the most common being the Common Tule (S. acutus), which is abundant below 5000 feet (to 8500 feet in Mariposa County), and the California Bulrush (S. californicus), also found in Freshwater Marsh plant communities along the coast from Marin County to Baja (Lower) California.

Tules grow to heights of eight to ten feet along streams and may reach fifteen or twenty feet in height in marshshores and on lakeshores. Mary Austin in The Land of Little Rain (Austin 1903, pp. 240-241) described the "tulare" marshes of the southern San Joaquin Valley: