Zostera marina L.
ZOSTERACEAE
- Eel-grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Zostera marina L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 968 (1753)
Rank: species
Images of Zostera marina
Common names
U.S.
name:
Seawrack
English name: eelgrass
French name: zostére marine
Italian name: Zostera maggiore
Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
= Zostera marina L. var. latifolia Morong
= Zostera marina L. var. stenophylla Asch. & Graebn.
= Zostera pacifica L.
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Zostera marina L. var. latifolia Morong
2) Zostera marina L. var. stenophylla Asch. & Graebn.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Alismatidae
Order: Najadales
Family: Zosteraceae
Genus: Zostera
Species:
Page counter: 1346 ( AVG: 221.13 / 219.791 )
Gallery:
Zostera marina
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova
Zostera marina
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Zostera marina
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Zostera marina
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la
France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in
public domain because its copyright has expired.
Zostera marina
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova
Zostera marina
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monfalcone, piana del Lisert, frammenti rinvenuti sulla battigia., Go, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Zostera marina
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.
Zostera marina
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova
Zostera marina
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 91.
Zostera marina
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monfalcone, piana del Lisert, frammenti rinvenuti sulla battigia., Go, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Zostera marina
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato
Zostera marina
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Zostera marina
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VA, WA), CAN (BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NU, ON, PE, QC), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Zostera marina L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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More species:
1) Zostera marina L. var. latifolia Morong [188]
2) Zostera marina L. var. stenophylla Asch. & Graebn. [184]
3) Zostera nana Roth [276]
4) Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr. [346]
5) Zoysia tenuifolia Willd. ex Thiele [309]
6) Zygophyllum fabago L. [388]
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