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Scientific Name |
Alternate Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Description |
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Family |
Family Source |
Formal Type |
graminoid? |
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origin source |
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Leaves |
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Flowers |
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Fruit |
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Roots |
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Height Class |
height source |
Fall Foliage Color |
Fall Foliage Color Note |
Growing Season Foliage Color |
Growing Season Foliage Color Note |
Flower Color |
Fruit Color |
Color Sour ce |
Pollination and Germination |
Pollination and Germination Description |
Pollination Source |
Flowering period |
flowering source |
fruiting period |
Wetland Indicator (National) |
indicator source |
habitat types |
habitat description |
habitat source |
Flooding Tolerance/Nontidal Regime (percent of growing season flooded or saturated) |
flooding tolerance source |
hydrologic zonation |
hydrologic zonation description |
Northeast (1) |
Southeast (2) |
North Central (3) |
North Plains (4) |
Central Plains (5) |
South Plains (6) |
Southwest (7) |
Intermountain (8) |
Northwest (9) |
California (0) |
Alaska |
Caribbean Area |
Hawaii |
range source |
light type |
light description |
light tol source |
salinity tolerance |
salinity source |
pH |
pH description |
pH source |
Drought tolerance |
drought source |
oil/grease |
oil/grease note |
oil/grease source |
metals tol |
metals note |
metals tolerance source |
wind/ice/snow tolerance |
wind/ice/snow note |
wind/ice/snow tol source |
insect/disease tolerance |
insect/disease note |
insect/disease source |
purification ability |
purification source |
wildlife value |
wildlife value note |
wildlife value source |
invasive potential |
invasive potential note |
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Aquatics |
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Ceratophyllum demersum |
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Coontail, Hornwort |
free floating, submerged aquatic forming large masses |
1 |
Ceratophyllaceae |
21 |
free floating submerged aquatic |
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perennial |
1 |
native |
6 |
much branched and forming large masses |
2 |
compound, toothed linear leaves (2/3 - 1 1/5 inches long, tow or three times divided, arranges in five to twelve whorls |
2 |
minute flowers borne singly in leaf axils |
2 |
fruit nutlet (achene) with two spines at base and one on top; rarely produced due to unpredictable pollination |
6 |
lacks true roots; may be loosely anchored to sediment by pale modified leaves |
6 |
submerged |
1 |
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green |
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water |
stamen of male plants float to water surface at maturity and discharge pollen, which, by chance, lands on the tiny female flowers; stem fragments with lateral buds develop into new plants |
6, 4 |
May through September |
2 |
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OBL |
15 |
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inland lakes, slow-flowing streams, fresh tidal areas |
1 |
regularly to permanently |
4 |
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drawdown zone to permanently flooded (1 to 5 feet; flooded for most of the growing season) |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
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shade |
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BOD, nitrification, phosphate |
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birds, small mammals, fish |
food source (plants, seeds) for ducks, coots, geese, grebes, swans, marshbirds, shorebirds, gamebirds; food source (plants, seeds) for muskrat; provides cover for fish, shrimp |
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52 |
9 |
208-210 |
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92 |
136 |
239, 355, (304) |
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Ceratophyllum demersum |
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Elodea canadensis |
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Waterweed |
rooted submerged aquatic with floating leaves only, sometimes floating at surface in shallow water |
1, 2 |
Hydrocharitaceae |
12 |
rooted submerged aquatic |
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nonpersistent perennial |
1 |
native |
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many-branched, often forming dense masses |
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elongate, sessile dark green leaves usually twice as long as wide (about 3/5 inch long and 1/5 wide), mostly drooping downward, with finely toothed margins, mostly arranged in whorls of threes |
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male and female flowers borne on stalks (pedicels) arising from tubular structure (spathe) in leaf axil, male stalks longer than female stalks |
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cylinder-shaped capsule |
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fibrous roots at rhizome nodes |
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submerged |
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dark green |
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water |
anthers on male flowers split, releasing pollen to fertilize female flowers; rhizome |
6, 4 |
July to September |
2 |
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OBL |
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tidal fresh waters; inland waters, often calcareous; quiet ponds, bays, sloughs, sluggish streams or lakes |
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permanently |
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permanently flooded |
OBL |
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NO |
OBL |
NO |
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full sun |
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<10 |
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6.5 - 10 |
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BOD, nitrification, phosphate |
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birds, small mammals, fish, insects |
food source for Redhead duck; food source for beaver; habitat for small aquatic life; habitat for small aquatic life |
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Elodea canadensis |
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Lemna minor |
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Common, Little, or Smaller duckweed |
unrooted floating aquatic, often forms massive carpetlike beds on the water's surface |
1, 2 |
Lemnaceae |
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free floating aquatic |
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nonpersistent perennial |
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native |
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none |
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leaflike structure (thallus) broadly oval-shaped, dark green above, purple below, with six to eighteen, usually seven, nerves |
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in pouches (rarely seen) |
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ovoid or ellipsoid, not winged, solitary seed |
10 |
one rootlet per plant from the underside of the thallus |
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floating |
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green or yellowish green |
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insect wind water |
reproduces by budding; plants remain attached in small colonies of 2-8 |
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July to August |
4 |
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OBL |
15 |
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lakes and ponds, slow-flowing nontidal streams, fresh tidal waters |
1 |
permanently |
4 |
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permanently flooded |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
NO |
OBL |
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part shade |
3 |
<0.5 |
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13 |
birds |
food source for pheasant gadwall, wood duck, Canada geese, teal |
3 |
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52 |
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98-99 |
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313 |
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468 |
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97, 239, 251, 310, 356 |
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Lemna minor |
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Nasturtium officinale |
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True watercress |
emergent aquatic with leafy, branched stems that mostly float in water or lie on mud |
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Cruciferae |
12 |
emergent aquatic |
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nonpersistent perennial |
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naturalized; introduced from Europe and considered native by some botanists |
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creeping, up to 9 feet long, smooth, succulent |
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alternate; up to 7" long; succulent, divided into 3-9 oval leaflets; terminal leaflet largest |
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small , white, four-petaled flowers (5 mm wide) in slender clusters |
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slender pod (1 -2.5 cm long) containing coarsely textured seeds |
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spreading stems rooted to bottom at several points |
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creeping |
3 |
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bright green |
stems and foliage |
small white flowers |
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water-carried seed and stem fragments |
6 |
April to October |
4 |
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OBL |
15 |
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springs or brooks, small ponds |
1 |
semi-permanently to permanently flooded |
4 |
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drawdown zone to permanently flooded (2 in to 1 ft) |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
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part shade |
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<0.5 |
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birds |
food source for waterfowl |
4 |
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12 |
86-87 |
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245 |
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239, 359 |
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Nasturtium officinale |
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Nelumbo lutea |
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Lotus, Sacred bean |
aquatic plant with fragrant, pale yellow flowers and bowl-shaped leaves borne on stalks above the water |
8 |
Ceratophyllaceae |
12 |
rooted floating aquatic |
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nonpersistent perennial |
1 |
native |
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stalks up to 3 1/2 feet long attacked to center of rounded leaves, alternately arranges |
2 |
simple, entire rounded leaves (up to 2 feet wide) |
2 |
large, showy, many-petaled yellowish flowers (up to 10 inches wide) |
2 |
many acorn-like nutlets (about 1/2 inch wide) borne in dark brown, cuplike fruit capsules (up to 4 inches wide) |
2 |
fibrous roots at nodes of spongy rhizome |
2 |
2' to 3' above water |
1 |
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matte green |
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large, showy, many-petaled yellowish flowers (up to 10 inches wide) |
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2 |
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readily reproduces from seed; rhizome |
4 |
June through September |
2 |
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OBL |
15 |
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slightly brackish and fresh tidal marshes and waters; ponds and backwaters |
1 |
regularly to permanently flooded |
4, 7 |
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permanently flooded (1 to 5 ft) |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
NO |
OBL |
OBL |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
15 |
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full sun |
7 |
<0.5 |
1 |
acidic to neutral |
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birds |
food source (seeds) for waterfowl, marshbirds, songbirds |
4 |
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208 |
13 |
112 |
efw |
215 |
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94 |
136 |
239, 359, (246, 263, 304) |
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95 |
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Nelumbo lutea |
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Nymphaea odorata |
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Fragrant water lily, Pond lily, White water lily |
rooted aquatic with floating leaves |
2 |
Nymphaeaceae |
12 |
rooted floating aquatic |
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nonpersistent perennial |
1 |
native |
6 |
long purple to red stalks (petioles) attach leaves to rhizomes; flowers borne on a long stalk |
2 |
roundish floating leaves (up to 10 inches wide) notched at base, green above and normally purplish below, |
2 |
large, showy, fragrant white (rarely pink) flower (2-6 inches wide) with many petals (17-32) borne singly on a long stalk |
2 |
seeds develop inside fleshy fruit below water surface |
6 |
fibrous roots at nodes of elongate, branched rhizome |
2 |
floats |
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dark green |
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large showy white (rarely pink) flowers |
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rhizome |
4 |
April into October |
2 |
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OBL |
15 |
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fresh tidal waters, ponds and lakes |
1 |
permanently |
4, 7 |
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permanently flooded (1 to 3 ft) |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
Y |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
OBL |
NO |
NO |
OBL |
NO |
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full sun to part shade |
7 |
<0.5 |
1 |
acidic to neutral |
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birds |
food source (seeds) for waterfowl |
6 |
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58 |
14 |
118-119 |
efw |
255 |
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92 |
138 |
239, 356, (245, 246) |
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Nymphaea odorata |