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  2. Spinifex (coastal grass) - Wikipedia

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    Spinifex is a genus of perennial coastal plants in the grass family. [2] [3] [4] [5]They are one of the most common plants that grow in sand dunes along the coasts of Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, with the ranges of some species extending north and west along the coasts of Asia as far as India and Japan. [6]

  3. Spinifex sericeus - Wikipedia

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    It is an important pioneer species which colonises coastal dunes, binding loose sand with its horizontal runners. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that common names included "Spring Rolling Grass" and that it "has no claim whatever as a food plant for stock, and can only be recommended as a sand-binder in ...

  4. Salix repens - Wikipedia

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    The plant has a Eurosiberian Boreo-temperate range, and is widely distributed around the coasts of western and northern Europe. [3] [4]In the UK, the prostrate forms (ssp. argentea and ssp. repens) are characteristically found on sand dunes, growing close to the water table in dune slacks, as well as in coastal heaths and acid grassland, as well as being found further inland on heaths and ...

  5. Forvie National Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The sand dunes are of various stages of evolution and contain plethora of plant species including marram grass (Ammophila arenaria), red fescue, (Festuca rubra), crowberry, (Empetrum nigrum), the cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix), common sedge, (Carex nigra), marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris) and the invasive creeping willow (Salix ...

  6. Why You Haven't Lived Until You've Gone Sand Sledding ... - AOL

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    The Great Sand Dunes National Park has the highest sand dunes in North America. There are 30 square miles of dune field with five massive dunes – the tallest being 750 feet.

  7. Ammophila breviligulata - Wikipedia

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    Ammophila breviligulata (American beachgrass or American marram grass) is a species of grass native to eastern North America, where it grows on sand dunes along the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes coasts. Beachgrass thrives under conditions of shifting sand, sand burial, and high winds; it is a dune-building grass that builds the first line of ...

  8. Cenchrus tribuloides - Wikipedia

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    Cenchrus tribuloides, the dune sandbur, is a grass common along the east coast of the mainland United States as well as Hawaii. It is also known as the sanddune sandbur, [ 1 ] long-spine sandbur or sand-dune sandspur and is common in sandy, marshy, or loosely forested areas.

  9. College football award winners: Full list of winners for 2024 ...

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    It's awards season for college football. Here's a list of the award winners in 2024.