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Description Aggregating individuals 6" (15 cm) high, 3 1/8" (79 mm) wide; solitary individuals 20" (51 cm) high, 10" (25 cm) wide. Cylindrical. Column pale gray-green to white; pale, variously colored tentacles with pink, lavender, or blue tips, in 5 rings around oral disk, numerous, thick, pointed; ring of knobs with stinging cells just under tentacles. Column covered with vertical rows of adhesive projections.

Habitat Either in dense populations or solitary, on rock walls, boulders, or pilings; from between high- and low-tide lines to low-tide line.

Range Alaska to Baja California.

Discussion Aggregation in this species is not a matter of many individuals coming together, but the result of many asexual longitudinal divisions of one founding anemone.