Often covering large expanses of rock, anemones
are very soft
and squishy organisms. Anemones usually cover themselves
with
bits of gravel and shell to blend in with the rock and
reduce
water loss at low tide. When stepped on or touched, they
will
squirt water while pulling in their tentacles.
Aggregating Anemones
can be green or white with tinges of pink. They have
tentacles
armed with tiny stinging barbs called nematocysts.
Using these
tentacles, they paralyze small organisms that cross their
path.
Luckily, our local species is not harmful to humans.
Habitat/Range: Aggregating Anemones are generally
found
in large groups attached to rocks. Anemones can
be found in
Baja northward to Alaska.