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Cherry Grove Boat Ramp, collected at rising low tide (0.2ft), small crabs found living in between the blades, epithetic brown algae and sediment clumps all along branches

Murrells Inlet Jetty, collected during a rising low tide, fingerlike dark green blades in branching patterns, small brown felt like organism attached to the blades.

Huntington Beach State Park Jetty, collected at rising low tide (1.1ft), found floating between the rocks, main structure resembles Sargassum but covered in epithetic red algae.

Murrells Inlet Jetty, collected during a rising low tide, dense branching bright green blades of medium length (~7cm) with brown coloration at the base.

Huntington Beach State Park Jetty, collected at rising low tide (1.1ft), spongy almost moss like, bright green, wiry and thin branching structure.

Murrells Inlet Jetty, collected during a rising low tide, dark brown and red, branching blades, holdfast buried in sand.

Huntington Beach State Park Jetty, collected at rising low tide (1.1ft), found floating between the rocks, attached to Sargassum fluitans, covered in small epithetic red algae.

Cherry Grove Fishing Pier, collected at a rising low tide (-0.2ft), found floating on the beach. Red stringy bundle of thin red blades wrapped around a piece of sea sponge.

Cherry Grove Fishing Pier, collected at a rising low tide (-0.2ft), thin, brown/red single hairlike protrusions found growing on old barnacles attached to the pilings.

White Point Swash creek, sampled under the bridge crossing in front of North Beach Towers during a falling tide (~0.8ft)

White Pond Swash creek, sampled under the bridge crossing in front of North Beach Towers during a falling tide (~0.8ft).

Murrells Inlet Jetty, collected during a rising low tide, light brown, filamentous blades with a main thick dark brown thallus. Found growing in flowing water between rocks. (saxicolous)