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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton vaseyi J.W.Robbins
Vasey's pondweed
Potamogeton: from Greek potamos, "a river," and geiton, "a neighbor," because of the habitat
vaseyi: for either George Vasey, Jr. (in Juncus), a doctor & later botanist for US Dept. of Agriculture (1889), or his son George Richard Vasey (1853-?), who collected plants in California for the government in 1876 & 1880 and later settled in Washington state
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | annual, submersed aquatic; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | green-brown, small; inflorescence spike |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | alternate, entire, with prominent midvein |
| (Glossary) |
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