Mosses, floating plants, and macroalgae
Little Neptune Grass
Cymodocea nodosa
Photo: Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature12–26 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size40 cm
- Difficulty★★★☆☆
- WaterMarine
Full profile
- Family
- Cymodoceaceae
- Origin
- Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic
- Size
- 10 – 40 cm
- Temperature
- 12 – 26°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.025 – 1.028
- Difficulty
- ★★★☆☆
- Water type
- marine
- Light
- High
- Fertilization
- roots in deep substrate
- Growth
- slow
- Position
- planted in sand
- Propagation
- rhizomes
Notes: A Mediterranean marine phanerogam with ribbon-like leaves. Natural seagrass beds are protected; only cultivated plants are present.
