The Yellow Sea saline meadow is a narrow ribbon of coastal wetland along China's eastern seaboard, running through Jiangsu Province between the Shandong Peninsula and the mouth of the Yangtze River, where great rivers deposit sediment into calm Yellow Sea waters. Its saline meadows are dominated by Suaeda salsa, a salt-tolerant succulent seepweed, while grasslands further inland are carpeted with the tall perennial grass Imperata cylindrica; freshwater marshes of Phragmites reed and Scirpus sedge were once widespread but have largely been converted to rice paddies and fish aquaculture. The climate is a humid monsoon type with warm, wet summers and roughly 800 to 1,200 mm of annual rainfall. The Yancheng Biosphere Reserve protects the heart of the region and supplies critical breeding habitat for about 40 percent of the world's remaining endangered red-crowned cranes, making this one of the most important coastal bird sites in East Asia.

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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