Plants

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Olivia Engl Nymphaea alba (water lilly) They are usually white or pink in color and are surrounded by big round leaves called lily pads. Have large flowers with curricular petals and a yellow center. Are very fragrant.Helps hold soil down. Need calm northeastern waters, such as ponds and lakes. Beaver, moose, muskrat, porcupine, and deer eat water lily leaves and roots and birds eat the seeds.Live in six to seven feet deep water with heavy bottom soil.

Terry Cramer Plant: Nuphar lutea

The pond lily grows in freshwater beds, with its roots secured in the ground and its leaves floating on the surface of the water. It blooms form June to September in the northern hemisphere. It is in the Nymphaeaceae family. The pond lily is used for medicine and food. The seeds and roots are edible and cure a variety of conditions.

Justin Taylor Plant: Sagittaria sagittifolia (flower) The sagittaria sagittifolia is also called arrowhead. It grows in water 10 to 50 cm deep. It’s leaves grow to be 15 to 25 cm long, 10 to 22 cm broad and are arrow shaped(that is why they are also called arrowheads).The flowers grow to be 2 to 2.5 cm broad, it has three small sepals and three white petals.

Nick Appleby Water Caltrop The water caltrop has a submerged stem reaches 12 to 15 ft (3.6 to 4.5 m) in length, anchored into the mud by very fine roots. It has two different types of leaves, finely divided feather-like submerged leaves borne along the length of the stem, and undivided floating leaves borne in a rosette at the water's surface. The floating leaves have saw-tooth edges and are ovoid or triangular in shape, 2–3 cm long, on inflated petioles 5–9 cm long, which provide added buoyancy for the leafy portion. The fruit is a nut with four 0.5 in (1 cm), barbed spines. Some seeds can remain viable for up to 12 years, although most will germinate within the first two years.

Khalieb Garthwaite giant lily pad

The Giant water Lily is the biggest water plant in the fresh water biome. It can get to be 9.8 feet in dynamiter and 26.2feet in length. To get this big they need little light and a lot of water. They’re pollinated by scarab beetles. After they are pollinated the next day they open and they are white the next night they are pink then they turn green. The humans are there only predator. They also can support 70 lbs.

Brittany Skillman: Floating Heart
· Heart shaped leaves · Non-native · Mediterranean area · Japan, China, and India · low oxygen levels · prefers slow moving rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds. · Deep water · Thick soil



Lesser Duckweed is among the world’s smallest flowering plants. It has no leaves, and its leaf-like body is called a thallus. No stem, its flower is really tiny, rarely seen. Its root is a single rootlet that hangs from the underside of the plant. This plant is important because it is food for fish, waterfowl and habitat for aquatic invertebrates. Because of its high nutritive value, duckweeds have been used for cattle and pig feed in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Lesser Duckweed is found in still and slow moving waters in many freshwater habitats. Often found along the shoreline after water levels have dropped. Google Earth Works Cited "Non-native Invasive Freshwater Plants." //Department of Ecology//. N.p., 1994. Web. 26 Mar. 2010. .

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