- Free-floating algae -- often called seaweed
- Red algae ( Rhodophyta) -- Porphyra (from which edible nori is made), dulse, Ceramium and maerl
- Green algae (Chlorophyta) --thongweed, sea lettuce (Ulva)
- Brown algae (Phaeophyta) -- like fast-growing kelp, Sargassum, Turbinaria, Dictyota, and wrack
- Phytoplankton -- tiny, one-celled photosynthetic plankton like diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophorids
- Plants
- Flowering sperms
- Submerged: Seagrasses -- flowering plants like eelgrass and thalassia
- Not Entirely Submerged: Mangroves -- trees that root in the shallow seafloor but grow above water
Hope this helps. JK
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