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Average Number of Leaves per Lateral Ramet

Number of Leaves                      90.00
                                      80.00
                                      70.00                 Dune      Swale   Shellhash Backdune
                                      60.00                 24.00     21.38
                                      50.00                          Habitat  25.90  23.83
                                      40.00
                                      30.00
                                      20.00
                                      10.00

                                        0.00
                                                  Foredune

                  Avg # Leaves per runner 47.00

Figure 10. Average leaf number for lateral ramets in each microhabitat. Error bars denote
standard deviation.

         The frequency of leaves per main ramet was 0.06 in the foredune, 0.06 in the dune, 0.11
in the swale, 0.11 in the shellhash, and 0.11 in the backdune (Figure 11).

                         Leaf to Length Frequency on Main Ramets

                  0.25

                  0.2

Frequency         0.15                                      0.104             0.106  0.105

                   0.1                 0.058
                                0.059

                  0.05

                  0                    Dune                  Swale   Shellhash       Backdune
                          Foredune                          Habitat

Figure 11. Frequency of leaves on main ramets. Error bars denote standard deviation.
Statistical Analyses: ANOVA analyses did not reveal statistical significance in the average
number of nodes per main ramet (p-value of 0.133), although Tukey’s post hoc analysis showed

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