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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton oakesianus J.W.Robbins
Oakes' pondweed
Potamogeton: from Greek potamos, "a river," and geiton, "a neighbor," because of the habitat
oakesianus: for William Oakes (1799-1848), its discoverer
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | green-brown, small; inflorescence spike |
| Fruit: | oval-to-ovate, plump, dry seed with a short, smooth beak |
| Leaf: | alternate, entire, prominent midvein; floating - heart shaped base; submersed - stalk-like with no blade, held 90deg. off stem, lay flat on water |
| Notes: | fibrous stipules free of leaf axils |
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