Luziola fluitans
[Hydrochloa caroliniensis]
Water grass

This species is a true aquatic grass, that looks like lawn grass. It is rooted on the bottom extending up to float and trail across shallow, slow-moving waters. It can tolerate long periods of drought, so long as the soil is wet. Its seeds and leaves are eaten by birds.


Water grass is a grass. stems slender, lower stems submersed, rooting at nodes, upper stems floating and leafy, stems branched, erect in mud, to 8 in. long; leaf blades light green, flat, short, to 1/4 in. wide, to 3 in. long, sandpapery on upper; ligule papery; inflorescences infrequent, tiny, branched, among or just above leaves, tiny whitish flowers

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