Green Algae
Brilliant white when bleached in sun.
What is cactus algae?
Turns dark brown on beach.
What is pelagic sargassum?
Have bitter chemicals that discourage grazing by fish
What is iridescent-banded algae?
Where branching coralline algae grows?
What is shallow seagrass beds?
Live on shallow seagrass beds and sand flats.
What is cactus algae?
Green brown bubble balls that appear partially flattened
What is balloon seaweed?
Have a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light, allowing the plants to live at greater depths than green plants.
What is Red algae?
Has brown-red branches with tiny, stiff, pointed branchlets in whorls of three.
What is Red spineweed?
Attaches with hairlike threads to hard substrates in waters greater than 5 ft deep.
What is sailors eye?
Attach by a holdfast to rock in turbulent waters.
What is three cornered hat algae?
As it drifts it provides a habitat life-raft for hundreds of species of animals.
What is sargassum?
Somewhat related to red Algae
What is green algae?
Long, has slightly twisted, dark-green straps with slender stalks attached to rhizomes.
What is common caulerpa?
Long, has smooth, brown, elongate, leathery leaves covered by faint dots.
What is attached sargassum?
Has invaded the Mediterranean Sea and is causing big ecological troubles.
What is caulerpa?
Grows in calm lagoons and often lives as unattached drift algae.
What is graceful redweed?
Long, has forked, spongy, bright- to dirty-green fingers attached at a single holdfast.
What is green Fleece?
Extremely abundant in certain areas of the Florida keys
What is dictyota?
Are coenocytic, no distinction between individual cells, with direct connections of cytoplasm throughout plant.
What is shaving brush Algae?
Have reddish, flat, evenly forked branches rooted at a single holdfast.
What is Thicket algae?