About Phyllospadix scouleri Hook.
Phyllospadix scouleri Hook., commonly known as Scouler's surfgrass, is a flowering marine plant that belongs to the Zosteraceae family. It is native to the western North American coastline, ranging from the Alaskan panhandle to Baja California. This plant is slender and vivid green, with long, flat blades. It grows in large clumps or beds that are exposed during low tide and submerged when the tide is high. It anchors to rocks in the middle to low intertidal zones, and lives in rocky areas that experience turbulent tides. Native American tribes along the Southern California Coast used this sea grass to create cordage and other woven objects. Woven specimens made from this plant recovered from San Miguel Island date to between approximately 10,000 and 8,600 years ago, as documented in Connolly, Erlandson, and Norris 1992.
