Phyllospadix torreyi S.Watson

Herbs; nodes with 2 rows of 3--5 roots. Leaves: sheath 6.5--55 cm, margins overlapping; blade to 2 m ´ 0.5--1.5 mm, margins entire, apex notched to rounded or slightly apiculate; veins 3. Generative shoots 50--60 cm, nodes 4--6, proximal 2 nodes each with 1 leaf, sterile, distal 2--4 nodes each bearing 1 leaf and 1--5 spathes. Inflorescences: peduncles 8--45 ´ 1--2 mm; staminate bract 2.5--4.3 ´ 2--2.7 mm; pistillate bract 3.5--6 ´ 1--1.5 mm, base distally narrowed, apex obtuse to acute. Fruits 2.8--3.2 ´ 2.9--3.5 mm.

It is mostly in temperate waters. It is occasionally in the subtropics. It grows in the intertidal zone.

The leaves with herring eggs of them are dried and used as food. The rhizomes are chewed or eaten raw.

Can be grown by seedlings.