Aquatic Plant Identification Deck
Featured Plant List
- Alternanthera philoxeroides -alligator weed
- Bacopa spp. - bacopa
- Brasenia schreberi - water shield
- Cabomba caroliniana - fanwort
- Canna flaccida - golden canna
- Ceratophyllum demersum - coontail
- Charaspp. - muskgrass
- Cladium jamaicense - saw-grass
- Colocasia esculenta- wild taro
- Crinum americanum- swamp lily
- Cyperus odoratus - flatsedge
- Dichromena spp. - star-rush
- Egeria densa - common waterweed
- Eichhornia crassipes - water hyacinth
- Eleocharis baldwinii - road-grass
- Eleocharis cellulosa - club-rush
- Fuirena scirpoidea - rush fuirena
- Habenaria repens - water-spider orchid
- Hydrilla verticillata - hydrilla
- Hydrocotyle spp. - water pennywort
- Hygrophila polysperma - East Indian hygrophila
- Ipomoea aquatica - water spinach
- Iris virginica - blue flag
- Juncus effusus - soft rush
- Lachnanthes caroliniana - redroot
- Lachnocaulon spp. - bog buttons
- Leersia spp. - southern cut grass
- Lemna valdiviana - small duckweed
- Limnobium spongia - frog's-bit
- Limnophila sessiliflora - limnophila
- Ludwigia spp. - water primrose
- Luziola fluitans - water grass
- Mayaca fluviatilis - bog moss
- Micranthemum spp. - baby's-tears
- Myriophyllum aquaticum - parrot feather
- Myriophyllum spicatum - Eurasian water milfoil
- Najas guadalupensis - southern naiad
- Nelumbo lutea - American lotus
- Nuphar luteum - spatterdock
- Nymphaea odorata - water lily
- Nymphoides aquatica - banana lily
- Orontium aquaticum - golden club
- Panicum hemitomon - maidencane
- Panicum repens - torpedograss
- Paspalum repens - water paspalum
- Peltandra virginica - arrow arum
- Phragmites australis - common reed
- Pistia stratiotes - water lettuce
- Polygonum spp. - knotweed
- Pontederia cordata- pickerelweed
- Potamogeton illinoensis - Illinois pondweed
- Rhynchospora inundata - inundated beakrush
- Sagittaria kurziana - strap-leaf sagittaria
- Sagittaria lancifolia - duck potato
- Salvinia minima - water fern
- Saururus cernuus - lizard's-tail
- Scirpus validus - soft-stem bulrush
- Sparganium americanum - bur-reed
- Spartina bakeri - Baker's cord grass
- Spirodela polyrhiza - giant duckweed
- Thalia geniculata - fire flag
- Typha spp. - cat-tails
- Utricularia spp - bladderwort
- Vallisneria americana- tape grass
- Xyris spp. - yellow-eyed-grasses
- Zizania aquatica- wild-rice
- Zizaniopsis miliacea - giant cutgrass