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Algae

Filamentous Algae

Golden Alga

Muskgrass (Chara)

Nitella

Planktonic Algae


Floating Plants

Bladderwort

Common Duckweed

Common Salvinia

Giant Duckweed

Giant Salvinia

Mosquito Fern (Azolla)

Water Hyacinth

Water Lettuce

Watermeal


Submerged Plants

American Pondweed

Baby Pondweed

Brittle Naiad (Marine Naiad)

Coontail

Curly-Leafed Pondweed

Eelgrass

Egeria

Elodea

Eurasian Watermilfoil

Fanwort (Cabomba)

Hydrilla

Illinois Pondweed

Parrotfeather

Sago Pondweed

Southern Naiad (Bushy Pondweed)

Variable-Leaf Pondweed

Variable-Leaf Watermilfoil

Waterstargrass

Widgeon Grass


Emergent Plants

Alligator Weed

American Lotus

Arrowhead (Bull Tongue)

Banana Lily (Floating Heart)

Blue Flag

Bulrush

Buttonbush

Cattail

Common Reed

Frog’s-bit

Giant Reed

Horsetail

Lizard’s Tail

Maidencane

Pickerelweed

Sedges

Smartweed (Water Pepper)

Soft Rush

Southern Watergrass

Spatterdock (Cow Lily)

Spike Rush

Tarrow (Popcorn tree)

Three-Square

Torpedograss

Waterleaf

Water Pennywort

Water Primrose

Water Shield (Dollar Bonnet)

Water-willow (American Water-willow)

White Water Lily (Fragrant Water Lily)

Yellow Water Lily (Mexican Water Lily)

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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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