chəәləәm

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Hul’q’umi’num’ Name: chəәləәm

Taxon Name: Zostera marina

“Common” Name: Eelgrass

Cultural Values:

Ecological Community: Marine

Wikipedia summary:

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

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Observational Data:

   First reported: 2010-05-22

   Source: Hunterston

   Last reported: 2023-08-06

   Source: iNat

   Obervation count: 8