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?
has green branches and stubby branchlets
What is grape caulerpa?
Brown red branches with pointed stiff branchlets
Red spine weed
the bubble branchlets contain sugar and protein for buoyancy
Red grapes
Splitting green brown blades
What is Iridescent-banded algae
Toxic alien species of caulerpa from the tropics
What is the sailors eye?
Greenish to bright red forked branches
Graceful redweed
Much of the coarse white beach in the keys is made of this
what is pulverized cactus algae
Flat olive-brown fronds
What is Dictyota
Lives in shallow seagrass beds
What is cactus algae and shaving brush algea?
Grows in shallow water can stand moderate wave surge
Red algae have a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs what color of light
What is blue light?
abundent in Florida keys
What is dictyota
in the udoteaceae family
Calcareous alega
In family rhodomelaceae
Red spiny seaweeds
Currents circling what part of the Atlantic bring the floating algae to the center of an ocean spanning gyre
Attaches by holdfast to rock in turbulent waters