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Phyllospadix scouleri
Also called Species code: Ps, Surf Grass
Scouler's surfgrass is a marine flowering plant that forms dense clumps or beds on rocks in the intertidal zone, exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. It is a seagrass, not a plant suited to home gardens, so care is mainly about its natural coastal conditions.
Phyllospadix scouleri, or Scouler's surfgrass, is a flowering marine plant in the family Zosteraceae. It is native to the coastline of western North America from the Alaskan panhandle to Baja California.
This slender, vivid green plant has long, flat blades. It grows in large clumps or beds exposed during low tide and submerged at high tide. It is found attached to rocks in the middle to low intertidal zones.
It is endemic to Baja California. It lives in rocky areas with turbulent tides.
Sea grass was used by Native American tribes along the Southern California Coast to make cordage and other woven objects, including specimens from San Miguel Island dated between about 10,000 and 8,600 years ago (see Connolly, Erlandson, and Norris 1992).
Species code: Pi · Asian Surf Grass · Phyllospadix juzepczukii · Toothed surfgrass · Torrey's surfgrass · Surfgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyllospadix scouleri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
