The Bohai Sea saline meadow is a Flooded Grasslands and Savannas ecoregion in the Palearctic realm, confined to China, where it rims the crescent-shaped shore of Bohai Bay on the northwest of the Bohai Sea. It occupies the actively growing coastal deltas built where the Yellow River (Huang He) and the Luan River discharge their heavy sediment loads into the sea. Vegetation grades seaward from interior grasslands of cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica) through salt-tolerant meadows of seepweed (Suaeda) to bare intertidal mudflats, with former freshwater reed and sedge marshes now largely converted to rice paddies and aquaculture. The climate is humid continental with hot summers and cold, dry winters (Koppen Dwa), marked by large seasonal temperature swings. These saline meadows and mudflats are a critical stopover on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway; the Oriental stork is the flagship species, and the ecoregion is one of only a few breeding sites worldwide for Saunders's gull, though it remains under heavy pressure from coastal development.

At a glance

About the flooded grasslands & savannas biome

Grasslands and savannas subject to seasonal or year-round flooding, including large wetland complexes. Exceptionally productive, they concentrate waterbirds and aquatic life.

Catalog plants suited to this ecoregion

Computed from each plant's stated USDA zone range against this ecoregion's CHELSA-derived current zone range, with the CHELSA mid-century warming delta applied for the projection. Plants whose stated range falls outside both the current and projected zone end up dropped; the rest land in one of the three buckets below.

Collections for this ecoregion

No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.

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