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Photographer: Paul Skawinski
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Family Hydrocharitaceae
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John
free-flowered water-weed, slender water-weed
Elodea: Greek elodes for "marsh"
nuttallii: for Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859)
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | drooping/tangling, perennial, submersed aquatic, flowers floating; branched stems to 40"; roots shallow |
| Flower: | white, 3-6-parted (clawed) female flowers small, waxy; male flowers break free at maturity; male and female flowers on separate plants |
| Leaf: | linear to lance-like, bright green, stalkless, not firm, edges folded, more or less equally spaced along the stem; 2-3 per whorl |
| Habitat: | quiet water; in fine sediment soil |
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