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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

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Jul 18: To Treat or Not to Treat: Late Season Management

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Oct 17: Liming and Clearing Ponds

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Photo Credits: The majority of the aquatic plant line drawings are the copyright of the University of Florida Center for Aquatic Plants (Gainsville). They are used with permission.

Aquatic plant photographs were provided by David Bayne, Jim Davis, Kelly Duffie, Billy Higginbotham, Michael Masser, John Clayton, Chetta Owens, Diane Smith, Joe Snow, Don Steinbach, Bridget Robinson Lassiter and Peter Woods.

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