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Photographer: Gary Fewless
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Family Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton hillii Morong
Hill's pondweed
Potamogeton: from Greek potamos, "a river," and geiton, "a neighbor," because of the habitat
hillii: for Ellsworth Jerome Hill (1833-1917)
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | green-brown, small, stalk recurved from the upper leaf axils, winter buds hard with a fibrous base; inflorescence spike |
| Fruit: | dry seed with low, sharp side and dorsal ridges |
| Leaf: | alternate, entire, with prominent midvein; narrow usually with a bristly tip; stipules white and fibrous |
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