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Two rare plants found here — Champlain beach grass and low-growing beach pea — are remnants of a time when the lake was an estuary of the Atlantic.

And beyond the beaches where the beach peas dig so diligently are the seaweeds—with a talent for picking and choosing all their own.

Next, set thickly in a mass representing a stout bush, comes the fleshy beach pea with rosy purple flowers.