Pickleweed

Neither a pickle nor a weed, this plant is the humble yet salty character that holds it all together out there in the San Francisco Bay tidal marshes. It provides food for the salt marsh harvest mice, shelter for rails, nectar for butterflies, and it plays a key role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and creating the spongy habitat that helps soak up water when tides and sea levels rise.

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