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  4. Ulvophycean Green Algae

class

Ulvophycean Green Algae

Ulvophyceae

Includes
19 native 1 introduced 69 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Cladophorales 7 native
  • Sea Lettuces and Allies 6 native
  • Bryopsidales 5 native
  • Orange Terrestrial Algae 1 native
  • Ulotrichales
  • Blastophysa
  • Codiolales
  • Dasycladales

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native ulvophycean green algae All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Broadleaf Sea Lettuce Ulva lactuca food 58
  • Gutweed Ulva intestinalis food 31
  • Green String Lettuce Ulva linza food 25
  • Californian Sea Lettuce Ulva californica food 24
  • Sea Lettuce Ulva rigida food 24
  • Sea Spiral Ulva taeniata food 24
  • Oval-blade Algae Caulerpa prolifera food 21
  • Cladophora graminea food 7
  • Sea Hair Chaetomorpha linum food 3
  • Green Bubble Seaweed Dictyosphaeria cavernosa food 2
  • Bryopsis corticulans food 2
  • Green Pin-cushion Alga Cladophora columbiana food 1
  • Green Spongy Cushion Codium setchellii food 1
  • Cladophora microcladioides food 1
  • Orange Rock Hair Trentepohlia aurea
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