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Callitriche stagnalis is a perennial aquatic vascular plant species. [1] Also known as pond water-starwort, C. stagnalis, may thrive in a variety of aquatic and subaquatic habitats, specially those exhibiting slowly moving to non-moving water. [1]
The carnivorous plant Utricularia vulgaris, a specialist in acid ponds, overwinters by producing turions that fall to the bottom of the pond and produce new plants in the spring. Other pond plants that also use this method include Potamogeton species and some Microphylum species. The lack of flow in ponds provide habitats for plants that are ...
Potamogeton is a genus of aquatic, mostly freshwater, plants of the family Potamogetonaceae. Most are known by the common name pondweed, although many unrelated plants may be called pondweed, such as Canadian pondweed (Elodea canadensis). The genus name means "river neighbor", originating from the Greek potamos (river) and geiton (neighbor). [1 ...
Curly-leaf pondweed is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a flattened, branching stem up to a meter long. The submerged leaves are alternately arranged. [3] The leaves are sessile, linear or oblong in shape, 25–95 millimetres (1– 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long and 5–12 millimetres (3 ⁄ 16 – 15 ⁄ 32 in) wide. [4]
Taxodium ascendens, also known as pond cypress, [2] is a deciduous conifer of the genus Taxodium, native to North America.Many botanists treat it as a variety of bald cypress, Taxodium distichum (as T. distichum var. imbricatum) rather than as a distinct species, but it differs in habitat, occurring mainly in still blackwater rivers, ponds and swamps without silt-rich flood deposits.
Sagittaria latifolia is a variably sized perennial that may reach as much as 150 centimeters (5 ft) in height, [7] but is more typically 60–120 cm (24–47 in). [8] The plants often grow together in crowded colonies and spread by runners at or just under the soil surface.
Stuckenia pectinata has long narrow linear leaves which are less than 2 mm wide; each is composed of two slender, parallel tubes. The main difference from other narrow-leaved pondweeds is that the stipule joins the leaf base, when it is pulled the sheath and stipule comes away, similar to a grass sheath and ligule.
The tiny plants provide cover for the vulnerable fry and tadpoles of many fishes and amphibians. The plants are used as shelter by pond species, such as bullfrogs and newts, and fish such as bluegills. They also provide shade and, although frequently confused with them, can reduce certain light-generated growths of photoautotrophic algae.