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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Hydrocharitaceae
Vallisneria americana Michx.
American eelgrass, water-celery
Vallisneria: for Antonia Vallisneri, early Italian botanist
americana: for America
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submerged aquatic; from creeping rhizomes |
| Flower: | white, 6-parted, male and female flowers on separate plants |
| Fruit: | capsule |
| Leaf: | mostly in a basal cluster, up to 7' long and less than 1/3" wide, ribbon-like with a central stripe, translucent |
| Habitat: | water 1'-7' deep |
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