emergent aquatic

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  • Eriophorum angustifolium / narrow-leaved cottongrass

    • limited to bogs/fens with standing water
    • "just a pointy-leaved plant" until the fruit develops
    • fruits are big white, cotton-like tufts

  • 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"

  • 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

  • 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

  • Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass

    • in bogs, fens, and roadsides through them
    • "grass-like" leaves - semicircular cross section with a groove down the middle
    • tall flowering spikes with many crowded, green/yellow-ish, teeny flowers
    • clonal, so often in widely spaced clumps

  • Typha latifolia / cattail

    • tall, grass-like with thick, long, flat leaves
    • in wet areas, especially streams and stream banks
    • inflorescence club-like spike; yellow (male) above, green (female) below
    • seed head dark brown club, with bare spike above
    • fruits (seeds) white & fluffy, released in late summer, autumn, winter

  • Veronica americana / American brooklime

    • teeny, 4-petaled blue or violet-ish flowers, white centers
    • in small clumps on stream banks and in other very wet areas
    • may be found as a single plant or as a large and dense population - clonal

  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica / blue water speedwell

    • small blue to mauve or lavender flowers; 4 petals
    • many flowers per stalk, but only a few blooming at once
    • opposite leaves tightly clasping the stems
    • in standing water or slowly moving streams

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