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?
Green fleece algae grow on these out to 50 feet
What is nearshore reef?
This is what all brown algae attaches to in shallow water.
What is hardbottom?
This type of algae makes up the a lot of the coarse white beach in the Keys.
What is pulverized cactus algae?
Red algae have a photosynthetic pigment that absorb this type of light.
What is blue light?
has pale yellow rhizomes with green branches bearing stubby branchlets that end in swollen tips.
What is Grape caulerpa?
Has flat, olive-brown fronds with smooth margins and blunt tips that fork into even branches of two.
What is Dictyota?
An end-point for pelagic sargassum, rather than an origin
Where is the mid-Atlantic Sargasso Sea?
This identifying feature of red algae consists of being 12 inches long, and having numerous bubble-like branchlets.
What are Red grapes?
Sailor’s eye attaches to threads like these to hard substrates.
What is hairlike?
Three-cornered hat algae attach by a holdfast to rock in this type of water.
What is turbulent?
Crushed skeletons of thicket algae and branching coralline algae are sources of this.
What is beach sand?
What is shallow water?
Has forked, spongy, bright-to dirty-green fingers attached at a single holdfast.
What Is Green Fleece?
Has greenish-brown, fan-shaped fronds with an in-rolled outer margin.
What is Padina?
This provides a habitat life-raft for hundreds of species of animals.
What is sargassum?
Has fragile, pale-pick branches with stubby branchlets.
What is spiny seaweed?