aquatic

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  • Chara contraria / Chara

    • plant-like rooted aquatic alga
    • green "stem" with whorls of green "leaves"
    • rough feeling due to carbonate encrustations
    • river bottom but other waters, including stock tanks

  • Elodea canadensis / Elodea

    • submerged with a stem and whorls of small, oblong leaves
    • usually has 3 leaves per node
    • leaf whorls denser near the growing tips
    • stems may be quite long or floating as fragmented bits

  • Erythranthe guttata / seep monkeyflower

    • yellow flowers with red spots in clumps of 5 or more
    • flowers large for the plant, but otherwise "normal" size
    • two "lips" - lower lip larger than upper, each with 2 petals
    • found in wetlands of all kinds

  • Hippuris vulgaris / common mare’s tail

    • two possible forms - emergent and submerged
    • submerged looks like a tail... thick with whorls of long-ish leaves
    • emergent looks like Equisetum gone wild... whorls of many leaves
    • both forms may be present
    • mostly in river backwaters or small streams running through the fen

  • Iris missouriensis / western blue flag iris

    • wetland monocot - long leaves, parallel veins
    • large blue flower with yellow "signal" stripe, purple veins
    • 3 petals, 3 sepals make up the flower
    • blooms in spring
    • "like a domestic iris on a diet"

  • Micranthes odontoloma / brook saxifrage

    • streamsides (or in the streams) especially at higher elevations
    • white petals with beautiful red center
    • yellow/green spots on the petals
    • multiple drooping flowers on foot-long, leafless stems

  • Nasturtium officinale / watercress

    • emergent aquatic in slow-ish flowing steams
    • four petaled white flowers in clusters
    • thick, shiny leaves
    • often in dense colonies

  • Persicaria amphibia / water smartweed

    • shocking pink flower clusters
    • oval, leathery leaves
    • either submerged or on stream or pond banks

  • Potamogeton richardsonii / Richardson’s pondweed

    • submerged aquatic with emergent inflorescence
    • crinkly, broad-ish leaves which clasp the stem
    • variable length internodes
    • often tangled up with sago pondweed

  • Ranunculus aquatilis / common water crowfoot

    • found in slowly flowing water ways, ditches, ponds
    • white, waxy flowers with yellow centers; 4 or 5 petals
    • flowers raised a couple inches above the water surface
    • usually grows in dense mats that look a lot like slime

  • Spyrogira spp./ green slime

    • unbranched, filamentous green alga
    • usually as slimy patches or long "tresses"
    • anchors to pondweed by entanglement
    • prefers the more nutrient rich waters drained from pastures

  • Stuckenia pectinata / sago pondweed

    • submerged aquatic - dominant in its habitat
    • grass-like (but not a grass); waves in the current
    • branched with ~5" pointed leaves

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