Zostera marinaL.

Eelgrass

WFO wfo-0000770315 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Zostera marina, photographed by Ellyne Geurts
fig. a Ellyne Geurts, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 195422842
Zostera marina, photographed by Randal
fig. b Randal, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184546584
Zostera marina, photographed by Bill Levine
fig. c Bill Levine, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203295254
Zostera marina, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. d Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174970301
Zostera marina, photographed by Lucian Vazquez
fig. e Lucian Vazquez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167673750
Zostera marina, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. f Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171642902
Zostera marina, photographed by Violet T.
fig. g Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172397651
Zostera marina, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. h Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176113915

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alga marina (L.) Lam.
  • Zostera latifolia Morong
  • Zostera marina f. latifolia (Morong) Setch.
  • Zostera marina f. sulcatifolia Setch.
  • Zostera marina f. typica Setch.
  • Zostera marina var. atam T.W.H.Backman
  • Zostera marina var. izembekensis T.W.H.Backman
  • Zostera marina var. latifolia Gray
  • Zostera marina var. latifolia Morong
  • Zostera marina var. major Roth
  • Zostera marina var. marina
  • Zostera marina var. phillipsii T.W.H.Backman
  • Zostera marina var. stenophylla (Raf.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Zostera maritima Gaertn.
  • Zostera oregana S.Watson
  • Zostera pacifica S.Watson
  • Zostera stenophylla Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.