Algae from Golf Green, September 2000
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Brookshire Country Club, Williamston, MI, USA
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| J Merrill and J Crum, Michigan State University |
These are a sampling of photomicrographs showing the cyanobacterium
Symploca borealis Rabenh.
(tentative identification by JM) sampled from the practice putting green at
Brookshire
Country Club, September, 2000. Thumbnail images on this page hyperlink to
larger iindividual images.
Symploca borealis is described as follows: "Plants growing
on moist surfaces in an extended stratum
but with numerous vertical conical tufts... Common in spring and summer...on
wet soil."
(from: Whitford & Schumacher, 1973. "A Manual of The Freshwater Algae".
Sparks Press, Raleigh, NC)
[Click on any thumbnail to load large image.]
