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
Chara spp. - 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