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?
Spongy, attached at a single holdfast. In the water it forms a domed clump.
What is green fleece algae?
Extremely abundant in certain areas of Florida, disappear in cold months.
What is Dictyota?
Sailors eye
A single enormous cell one of the largest known to science.
Has fragile pale pink branches
What is Spiny seaweed?
live on shallow sea grass beds and sand flats
Where do Cactus algae and Shaving brush algae live?
Green-brown bubble-balls that appear partially flattened.
What is balloon seaweed?
Have bitter chemicals to discourage grazing by fish.
What is Iridescent banded algae?
Have reddish, flat, evenly forked branches rooted at a single holdfast.
What is Thicket algae?
4 inches long, looks like a thin broccoli floret. The growing algae are firmly anchored by their stiff stalk to a mass of rhizoids.
What is shaving brush algae?
Live attached and float when free due to air in their fronds.
What is three cornered hat algae?
Have photosynthetic pigment that absorbs blue light
What is Red Algae?
Grow on shallow hard bottom
Where do red grapes and thicket algae grow?
It’s surface is occasionally covered with encrusting algae of other types.
What is bubble algae?
branches connect to a tough holdfast, leathery leaves covered by faint dots
What is attached sargassum?
provides a habitat life-raft for hundreds of species of animals.
What is Sargassum?
Grows in wiry, tangled yellowish brown clumps.
What is Hypnea?