Sea Oats

Description:

Sea oats are the grasses at the top and down the sides of the sand dunes. The sea oats are the greenish black things on the top edge of the sand dunes. The dark things in the water are rocks, and the smaller green and black and brown stuff at the water line on the shore are sea grasses and small debris washed ashore in the waves and tide line.

Habitat:

"Recently, Floridian ornithologists discovered that the pygmy burrowing owl makes its nest within sea oat colonies to conceal its young from natural predators such as the frigatebird." Wikipedia

Notes:

These grasses are important to holding the sand dunes together and protecting the lands behind them from hurricane surf and tides.