Ocean Isle Beach Nature Trail
Coastal plants are some of my favorites and the nature trail at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, is a good place to get up close. Boardwalks take you across squishy bits of the tidal marsh and into the sandy maritime…
Wax myrtle (Morella cerifera)
Greenbriar berries (Smilax sp.)
Fruits of the yaupon holly
Greenbriar (Smilax sp.) climbing a juniper.
Looking across the marsh from the boardwalk.
Wax myrtle and juniper with a little bit of yaupon mixed in.
Cordgrass along the boardwalk
What a crop of cones!
a sea of cordgrass
A sprawly live oak
