PHRAGMITES.

PHRAGMITES. The article about the beauties of the autumn garden authorizes the pleasure I have in the marsh at Farm Creek that we visit often on fall and winter walks. Phragmites—tall reeds, faded to brown with feathery brown tops—dominate the views. Silver and brown water provides the background at high tide; silver and brown mud provides the background at low tide. I feel more justified now in my enjoyment of phragmites because of this wikipedia article. I had known that phragmites were considered an invasive species, and accordingly, I have always been a little embarrassed because I like them, but I disapprove of invasive species. The article says that there is clear evidence that there were phragmites in America before the Europeans arrived, even though a European phragmite species that is almost indistinguishable from the American species (but much more vigorous) now appears to be spreading in this country at the expense of other American wetland plants.