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Lindsey Slough choked with visible weed

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
A marshy edge of a river choked with weeds.
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Tips of Brazilian waterweed (Egeria densa) break the surface at low tide in Lindsey Slough in the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. More commonly, this invasive plant is completely submerged.

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