Species
eel grass
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAlismatales
- FamilyZosteraceae
Habitatmarine
Common Name: seagrass
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Article
Zostera marina is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of eelgrass, with seawrack much less used, and refers to the plant after breaking loose from the submerged wetland soil, and drifting free with ocean current and waves to a coast seashore. It is a saline soft-sediment submerged plant native to marine environments on the coastlines of northern latitudes from subtropical to subpolar regions of North America and Eurasia.
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Biota of the Adriatic SeaBiota of the Atlantic OceanBiota of the Black SeaBiota of the Mediterranean SeaBiota of the Sea of AzovBotanical taxa named by Carl LinnaeusCommons link from WikidataFlora of EuropeFlora of the PacificIUCN Red List least concern speciesPlants described in 1753Salt marsh plants