February 2, 2012 Puget Sound, plumose anemone.
Several giant plumose anemones (Metridium senile) found a perch on hard bottom material in central Puget Sound.
This filter feeding anemone is one of the many resident invertebrates that EPA's Puget Sound cleanup is working to better protect.
Photo by Bruce Duncan, U.S. EPA. Original public domain image from Flickr