Control and Manage Pond Plants

This alphabetical list will help if you need to remove or control a plant in your pond and you know already know what type of plant it is. If you don’t know the name of the plant in your pond, start by browsing photos with our ‘identify a plant’ tool.

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Air Potato Asian Marshweed Alligator Weed American Bur-Reed American Lotus American Pondweed American Water Plantain Arrowhead Baby Pondweed Beaksedge Black Mangrove Bladderwort Blue Flag Bogbutton Brazilian Pepper Tree Brittle Naiad Brittle Waternymph Bryozoans Bulrush Bur Marigold Bushy Pondweed (Southern Naiad) Buttonbush Cabomba (Fanwort) Cattail Chara (Muskgrass) Carolina Pony’s Foot Carolina Redroot Chinese Tallow (Popcorn tree) Cogongrass Combleaf Mirmaidweed Common Reed Common Rush Common Salvinia Coon-tail Cordgrass Cow Lily (Spatterdock) Creeping Burhead Curly-Leafed Pondweed Cutleaf Watermilfoil Dodder Dollar Bonnet (Water Shield) Dotted Duckweed Duckweed Eelgrass Egeria Egyptian Panicgrass Elephant Ear Elodea Euglena (micro-orgnaism) Eurasian Watermilfoil Filamentous Algae Fineleaf Pondweed Flat Sedge Floating Crystalwort Floating Heart Floating Pondweed Florida Mudmiget Flowering Rush Frog’s-Bit Giant Cane Giant Cut Grass Giant Duckweed Giant Reed Giant Salvinia Golden Algae Golden Canna Green Arrow Arum Gulf Swampweed Honeysuckle Horned Pondweed Horsetail Hydrilla

Hygrophilia Illinois Pondweed Indian Swampweed Japanese Climbing Fern Large-Leaf Pondweed Leafy Pondweed Lizard’s Tail Loosestrife Mare’s-tail Milkweed Mosquito Fern Mud Plantain Nitella Panic Grass Parrot’s-feather Pickerelweed Pipewort Planktonic Algae Privet Rattlebox Rooted Water Hyacinth Ribbonleaf Pondweed Richardson’s Pondweed Sago Pondweed Salt Cedar Salt Grass Sedges Shade Mudflower Silk Tree Smartweed Southern Cut Grass Southern Watergrass Spike Rush Spotted Pondweed Spotted Water Hemlock Starhorn St. John’s Wort Swamp Lily Swamp Loosestrife Sweet Flag Three-Square Three-Way Sedge Turtleweed Tropical Spiderwort Trumpet Vine Variable-Leaf Pondweed Variable-Leaf Watermilfoil Virginia Buttonweed Watercress Waterhyssop Waterleaf Watermeal Water Clover Water Hyacinth Water Lettuce Water Lily Water Pennywort Water Primrose Waterspider Orchid Water Star Grass Water Taro Waterthread Pondweed Water-willow(American Water-willow) Water Wisteria Widgeon Grass Wild Rice Willow Willow-leafed Hygrophilia Yellowcress Yellow-eyed Grass Yellow Flag