Habitat: A Home for Codium
Codium fragile is found in the intertidal zone from Alaska
to Baja California. It is widely distributed, especially in the lower
intertidal. It lives on the tops and sides of rocks and seems to prefer
This species is a perennial, growing continuously from year to year.
It has little ability to utilize transiently high levels of nutrients
but rather has a low uniform growth rate under a variety of conditions.
Kathy's Codium pages copyright Kathy Tyson 1996.