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 a scientific name of Caulerpa racemosa, pale yellow rhizomes, and green branches.
What is Grape caulerpa?
Algae of 12in, formed by flat, splitting, green-brown blades with concentric bands and a holdfast
What is Iridescent-banded algae?
As it drifts, what provides a habitat life raft for hundreds of species of animals
What is Sargassum?
This type of red algae is found halfway along the Florida coast
What is Red grapes algae?
Type of green algae found all along the coast of Florida
What is Green fleece?
Where the Dictyota algae is very abundant
What is the Florida Keys?
A single enormous cell, one of the largest known to sciencd
What is Sailor’s eye?
This red algae has brown-red branches with tiny, stiff, pointed branchlets in whorls of 3
What is Red spineweed?
The 2 places that Cactus and shaving brush algae live on
What is low seagrass beds and sand flats?
Attached sargassum grows anchored to hard bottom in water out to what feet
What is 50 feet?
This means there is no distinction between individual cells
What is coenocytic?
Graceful redweed grows in these habitats and lives as unattached drift algae
What is calm lagoons?
The family where the Sailor’s eye algae comes from
What is Valoniaceae?
Algae described as golden bouquets of pyramid-shale fronds
What is Three-cornered hate algae?
Crushes skeletons of these algae are sources of beach sand
What is thicket algae and branching coralline algae?
The scientific name of red algae
What is Rhodophyta?