Halosere

The earliest plant colonizers are algae and zostera, which can tolerate submergence by the tide for most of the 12 hour cycle and which trap mud, causing it to accumulate.

[citation needed] On a large scale halophytes have colonized the halosere on the banks of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

[2] Halosere vegetation can also be found in the salt marshes of the Wadden Sea islands and the zone towards the dunes.

Halosere in river estuaries consist of mudflats and the so called sward zone.

Halosere sward zones can be found in the Llanrhidian marsh on the Gower Peninsula.