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= Marine Plant Photos = | = Marine Plant Photos = | ||
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Marine plants, or sea grasses, are marine flowering plants rarely exposed to air (usually only during low tides). The common sea grass species found in Caribbean coral reefs are turtle grass and eel grass. <ref name="sumich">Sumich, James L. An Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life, Seventh Edition. WCB/McGraw Hill. 1999.</ref> | |||
Flowering plants like sea grass have leaves, stems, and roots. Sea grasses "produce horizontal stems, or rhizomes, that attach the plants in soft sediments or to rocks." <ref name="sumich" /> Sea grass is a food staple for many [[ReefInhabitants#Reef_Creatures|creatures]] above and below the water (ex. sea turtles). | |||
Sea grasses can "reproduce vegetatively by sprouting additional vertical leaves form the lengthening horizontal rhizome" or by using water currents to pollinate underwater stigma. <ref name="sumich" /> | |||
== Class Photos from the US/British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean == | == Class Photos from the US/British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean == | ||
*[https://picasaweb.google.com/ENST259/MarinePlants Marine Plants] | *[https://picasaweb.google.com/ENST259/MarinePlants Marine Plants] | ||
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Marine plants, or sea grasses, are marine flowering plants rarely exposed to air (usually only during low tides). The common sea grass species found in Caribbean coral reefs are turtle grass and eel grass. [1]
Flowering plants like sea grass have leaves, stems, and roots. Sea grasses "produce horizontal stems, or rhizomes, that attach the plants in soft sediments or to rocks." [1] Sea grass is a food staple for many creatures above and below the water (ex. sea turtles).
Sea grasses can "reproduce vegetatively by sprouting additional vertical leaves form the lengthening horizontal rhizome" or by using water currents to pollinate underwater stigma. [1]