Aquatic Plant Identification Series
University of Florida	Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System

List of Plants in Videotape / DVD ID Series

FLOATING AND FLOATING-LEAVED PLANTS

1. Water hyacinth - Eichhornia crassipes
   Compare - Water hyacinth and Frog's-bit
2. Water lettuce - Pistia stratiotes
3. Frog's-bit - Limnobium spongia
4. Water fern - Salvinia minima
5. Mosquito fern - Azolla caroliniana
6. Small duckweed - Lemna valdiviana
   Compare - Small duckweed and Giant duckweed
7. Giant duckweed - Spirodela polyrhiza
8. Bog-mat - Wolffiella gladiata
9. Banana lily - Nymphoides aquatica
10. Water shield - Brasenia schreberi
11. Spatterdock - Nuphar luteum
12. Fragrant water lily - Nymphaea odorata
    Compare - Water lily and Spatterdock
13. Yellow water lily - Nymphaea mexicana
14. American lotus - Nelumbo lutea

EMERSED PLANTS - PART I

1. Alligator weed - Alternanthera philoxeroides
2. American lotus - Nelumbo lutea
3. Arrow arum - Peltandra virginica
   Compare - Arrow arum, Common arrowhead, Wild taro
4. Coastal arrowhead - Sagittaria graminea
5. Common arrowhead - Sagittaria latifolia
6. Duck potato - Sagittaria lancifolia
7. Baby's-tears - Micranthemum umbrosum
8. Bacopa - Bacopa spp.
9. Blue flag - Iris virginica
10. Bur marigold - Bidens mitis
11. Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis
12. Cattails - Typha spp.
    Compare - Southern cattail and Common cattail
13. Elderberry - Sambucus canadensis
14. Fire flag - Thalia geniculata
15. Frog's-bit - Limnobium spongia
    Compare - Frogs-bit and Water hyacinth
16. Golden canna - Canna flaccida
17. Golden club - Orontium aquaticum
18. Hygrophila - Hygrophila spp.
    Compare - Lake hygrophila and East Indian hygrophila
19. Knotweeds - Polygonum spp.

    EMERSED PLANTS - PART II

20. Lizard's-tail - Saururus cernuus
21. Mermaid weed - Proserpinaca pectinata
22. Parrot feather - Myriophyllum aquaticum
23. Pickerelweed - Pontederia cordata
    Compare - Pickerelweed and Common arrowhead
24. Red ludwigia - Ludwigia repens
25. Redroot - Lachnanthes caroliniana
26. St. John's-wort - Hypericum spp.
27. St. John's-wort - Triadenum virginicum
28. Spatterdock - Nuphar luteum
29. Swamp lily - Crinum americanum
    Compare - Swamp lily and Spider lily
30. Swamp loosestrife - Decodon verticillatus
31. Water hemlock - Cicuta mexicana
32. Water horn fern - Ceratopteris thalictroides
33. Water pennyworts - Hydrocotyle spp.
34. Water primroses - Ludwigia spp.
35. Water spider orchid - Habenaria repens
36. Water spinach - Ipomoea aquatica
37. Wild taro - Colocasia esculenta

SUBMERSED PLANTS - PART I

1. Dwarf arrowhead - Sagittaria subulata
2. Strap-leaf arrowhead - Sagittaria kurziana
   Compare - Strap-leaf sagittaria and Tape grass
3. Baby's-tears - Micranthemum umbrosum
4. Bacopa - Bacopa spp.
5. Bladderwort - Utricularia foliosa
6. Cone-spur bladderwort - Utricularia gibba
7. Purple bladderwort - Utricularia purpurea
8. Bog moss - Mayaca fluviatilis
   Compare - Bog moss and Loose water milfoil
9. Common waterweed - Egeria densa
   Compare - Common waterweed and Hydrilla
10. Coontail - Ceratophyllum demersum
11. East Indian Hygrophila - Hygrophila polysperma
12. Fanwort - Cabomba caroliniana
    Compare - Fanwort and Limnophila
13. Hydrilla - Hydrilla verticillata

    SUBMERSED PLANTS - PART II

14. Limnophila - Limnophila sessiliflora
15. Muskgrass - Chara spp.
16. Illinois pondweed - Potamogeton illinoensis
17. Sago pondweed - Potamogeton pectinatus
18. Clasped pondweed - Potamogeton perfoliatus
19. Southern naiad - Najas guadalupensis
20. Stonewort - Nitella spp.
    Compare - Stonewort and Muskgrass
21. Tape grass - Vallisneria americana
    Compare - Tape grass and Strap-leaf sagittaria
22. Eurasian water milfoil - Myriophyllum spicatum
23. Loose water milfoil - Myriophyllum laxum
24. Variable-leaf milfoil - Myriophyllum heterophyllum

GRASSES, SEDGES AND RUSHES - PART I

1. American cupscalegrass - Sacciolepis striata
   Compare - American cupscalegrass and Maidencane
2. Bald-rush - Psilocarya nitens
3. Barnyardgrass - Echinochloa spp.
4. Inundated beak-rush - Rhynchospora inundata
5. Small-headed beak-rush - Rhynchospora microcephala
6. Tracy's beak-rush - Rhynchospora tracyi
7. Bog buttons - Lachnocaulon spp.
   Compare - Bog buttons and Hat-pins
8. Soft rush - Juncus effusus
9. Needle rush - Juncus roemerianus
10. Shore rush - Juncus marginatus
11. Common three-square - Scirpus pungens
12. Soft-stem bulrush - Scirpus validus
13. Burhead sedge - Scirpus cubensis
    Compare - Burhead sedge and Cyperus spp.
14. Salt-marsh bulrush - Scirpus robustus
15. Bur-reed - Sparganium americanum
16. Bushy beardgrass - Andropogon glomeratus
17. Common reed - Phragmites australis
18. Sand cordgrass - Spartina bakeri
19. Salt-marsh cordgrass - Spartina alterniflora
20. Giant cutgrass - Zizaniopsis miliaceae
    Compare - Giant cutgrass and Wild rice

    GRASSES, SEDGES AND RUSHES - PART II

21. Hurricane-grass - Fimbristylis spathacea
22. Napiergrass - Pennisetum purpureum
23. Maidencane - Panicum hemitomon
24. Torpedograss - Panicum repens
    Compare - Torpedograss and Maidencane
25. Guineagrass - Panicum maximum
26. Paragrass - Brachiaria mutica
27. Saw-grass - Cladium jamaicense
28. Southern cutgrass - Leersia spp.
29. Road-grass - Eleocharis baldwinii
30. Club-rush - Eleocharis cellulosa
31. Giant spikerush - Eleocharis interstincta
32. Star-rush - Dichromena spp.
33. Rush Fuirena - Fuirena scirpoidea
34. Lake-rush - Fuirena squarrosa
35. Flat sedge - Cyperus odoratus
36. Distinct sedge - Cyperus distinctus
37. Watergrass - Luziola fluitans
38. Water paspalum - Paspalum repens
39. Wild-rice - Zizania aquatica
40. Yellow-eyed-grasses - Xyris spp.

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