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Many of these species are dangerous invasives and should be disposed of in a way that guarantees that they will not enter local waters. Common aquarium plant species: Aciotis acuminifolia. Acmella repens. Acorus calamus (Common sweet flag) Acorus gramineus (Japanese sweet flag) Aldrovanda vesiculosa. Alisma canaliculatum.
It is an erect, waist-high, stout perennial bunch grass, with grayish to bluish green leaves. Flowering heads are dense, spike-like, and usually 2 to 5 inches (50 to 125 mm) long. Flowering heads are dense, spike-like, and usually 2 to 5 inches (50 to 125 mm) long.
Vallisneria is a submerged plant that spreads by runners and sometimes forms tall underwater meadows. Leaves arise in clusters from their roots. The leaves have rounded tips, and definite raised veins. Single white female flowers grow to the water surface on very long stalks. [3] Male flowers grow on short stalks, become detached, and float to ...
Elodea is a genus of 6 species of aquatic plants often called the waterweeds described as a genus in 1803. Classified in the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), Elodea is native to the Americas [2] and is also widely used as aquarium vegetation and laboratory demonstrations of cellular activities. It lives in fresh water. [3]
Micranthemum micranthemoides was a small subaquatic glabrous annual that exhibited creeping stems and ascending branches. Micranthemum micranthemoides grew 5-20 cm in height. Micranthemum micranthemoides had opposite, elliptic leaves measuring 2–5 mm. Leaves were entire. Flowers were both solitary and axillary.
Sagittaria plant stock (the perennial rhizome) is a horizontal creeper (stoloniferous). The leaf grows up to .3–.9 metres (1–3 ft) tall, with a shape resembling an arrowhead. Between July and September, a single stalk bears groups of three white flowers with three petals each. [4] It is obliquely obovate, the margins winged, with an apical ...
Najas guadalupensis is an annual, growing submerged in aquatic habitat types such as ponds, ditches, and streams. It produces a slender, branching stem up to 60 to 90 centimeters in maximum length. The thin, somewhat transparent, flexible leaves are up to 3 centimeters long and just 1 or 2 millimeters wide.
Lomariopsis lineata is a species of fern native to South East Asia. [2] The prothallia of this species (or possibly a closely related species) are commonly cultivated as an aquarium plant, where it is known to aquarists as süsswassertang (German spelling: Süßwassertang). [3] It is often incorrectly spelled "subwassertang" due to the German ...