What tickles your toes when you walk into the water here in Puget Sound? Most refer to it as seaweed, but it looks similar to the grass that may grow outside your house. Seagrasses are flowering plants that live in shallow waters all over the world. Here in Puget Sound, we mostly see a species called Zostera marina, commonly called eelgrass. Most of what you can see of the eelgrass is the long ribbon-like blades which flow with the current. Eelgrass is one of the most important ecosystems in the entire ocean.

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