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A Key to Common Native Aquatic Plant Species - VLMP Center for ...

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FLOATING LEAVED PLANTS ……. CONTINUED<br />

10D. Little Floating Heart (Nymphoides cordata)<br />

Small white<br />

flowers<br />

11. Long Narrow, Grass-like Floating Leaves<br />

Burreed (Sparganium spp.)<br />

Leaves reach the surface and<br />

float horizontally along it.<br />

bunch of banana-like<br />

“roots” on stem just<br />

below water’s surface.<br />

Leaves are the size of<br />

silver dollars. Stems<br />

are rooted in pond<br />

bot<strong>to</strong>m.<br />

Maine has 7 species of aquatic burreeds, some with<br />

floating leaves and others with erect emergent leaves.<br />

2.6.16<br />

Hard, burr-like<br />

seed heads

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