Under the sea, these meadows can also produce flowers

Green ribbons ripple over the seabed. They look like herbs and could pass as simple algae. The plants of marine herbariums belong to flowering plants. In the Florida Keys, they form habitats where many animals live and feed.

Breeding is not only dependent on the extent of the prairie. These plants also have a sexual reproduction, with pollen. Water is involved in its transport; NOAA also reports the possible role of small crustaceans. In parallel, buried horizontal stems, the rhizomes, can expand and give rise to new shoots.

An underwater meadow therefore brings together several modes of growth and renewal. Its resemblance to a lawn should not mask this world of discreet flowers, seeds and animal passages. The leaves also slow down the movement of water and promote the deposition of particles: this vegetation transforms the environment in which it develops.