The Plumose Anemone is a long column-shaped sea creature that has stinging tentacles. It can be found all around the shores of England in strong flowing water. It is often found clinging onto rocks and boulders on the lower shore, but it can also be found in waters as a deep as a hundred metres. This anemone can also be seen on sewage pipes, piers and ships wrecks.

The Plumose Anemone is around thirty centimetres tall with a smooth column which has lots of fine tentacles on the top of it.  The tentacles almost look like a cluster of feathers. The base of the column is usually around four centimetres wide and has fine tentacles attached to it. This anemone is normally orange-pink or white, but it can sometimes be yellow, dark green, brown, grey or a reddish colour and the tentacles can be a different shade to the column.

Plumose Anemones extend their tentacles in water, but when the tide is low they retract them back into the centre. These anemones creep very slowly along rocks and as they move, they sometimes leave fragments of their bases behind. These fragments slowly develop into fully formed Plumose Anemones.