“…Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata are often subdominant species, depending on local topography and salinity (Visser et al 1998). In the higher elevation Chenier Plain of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas, the high marsh species, Spartina patens and Distichlis spicata, dominate brackish coastline marshes (Visser et al 2000). Salt marsh vegetation dominates the shorelines of the eastern section (Delta Plain) of the Louisiana coast while both brackish and saline marshes occur along the western Louisiana coastline (Chenier Plain) (Figure 6.123).…”