Seaweed

Various grass-like seed plants living in the sea are referred to as seagrass in German. In contrast to seaweed , seaweeds have roots and can bloom. They line the coastal regions in large numbers. Several groups belong to the seagrasses:

• Seagrass family (Zosteraceae) with the genera:
  • Seagrasses ( Zostera )
  • Heterozostera
  • Phyllospadix

Other genera:

• Neptune grass ( Posidonia ) from the Posidoniaceae family (in the Mediterranean and the seas off Australia).
• The genera Cymodocea , Halodule , Syringodium and Thalassodendron from the family Cymodoceaceae
• Enhalus acoroides , Halophila and Thalassia from the family of the frog-bite family(Hydrocharitaceae), subfamily Halophiloideae

Colloquially, "seaweed" is also referred to as:

• The seagrass sedge ( Carex brizoides , in damp places inland)
• The crested pondweed ( Potamogeton pectinatus , in fresh and brackish water)
• Balances ( Ruppia ) such as the sea ​​balance ( Ruppia maritima ) and the screwy balance ( Ruppia cirrhosa )
• The poly-fruited pond thread ( Zannichellia palustris subsp. Polycarpa ), a subspecies of the swamp pond thread (in fresh and brackish water)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.