Chart 393 - Aquatic Plants

Aquatic Plants Chart

Spectrum Chart - 393 : Aquatic Plants

1. Lotus (Nelumbo Nucifera) - Lotus (Nelumbo Nucifera) is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. This plant is an aquatic perennial. It is commonly cultivated in water gardens. It is also the national flower of India, Bangladesh and Vietnam.

2. Water Lily (Nymphaea) – Water Lily (Nymphaea) is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants. Water-lilies are aquatic rhizomatous perennial herbs. The leaves grow from the rhizome on long petioles. Most of them float on the surface of the water. The blades have smooth or spine-toothed edges.

3. Water Hyacinth (Elchhornia Crassipes) - Water Hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant native to tropical and sub-tropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm across and float above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks.

4. Water Caltrop (Trapa Natans) – Water Caltrop are floating annual aquatic plants, growing in slow-moving water up to 5 meters deep, native to warm temperate parts of Eurasia and Africa. They bear ornately shaped fruits. Each fruit contains a single very large starchy seed.

5. Hydrilla (Hydrilla Verticillata) – Hydrilla is a genus of aquatic plant Hydrilla verticillata. It is native to the cool and warm waters of the Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia. Hydrilla has a high resistance to salinity compared to many other freshwater associated aquatic plants.

6. Water Wheel Plant (Aldrovanda Vesiculosa) - Waterwheel plant, is the sole extant species in the flowering plant genus Aldrovanda of the family Droseraceae. The plant captures small aquatic invertebrates using traps similar to those of the Venus flytrap. It is the most widely distributed carnivorous plant species, native to Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

7. Eel Grass (Vallisneria) - Eelgrass is a freshwater aquatic plant of a genus Vallisneria. It is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. It is a submersed plant that spreads by runners and sometimes forms tall underwater meadows. Leaves arise in clusters from their roots. The leaves have rounded tips and definite raised veins.

8. Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus Aqutilis) - Water Crowfoot is a plant species of the genus Ranunculus, native throughout most of Europe and western North America and also northwest Africa. This is an aquatic plant, growing in mats on the surface of water. It has branching thread-like underwater leaves and toothed floater leaves. The flowers are white petaled with yellow centres.

9. Fanwort (Cabomba Caroliniana) – Fanwort is an aquatic plant genus, one of two belonging to the family Cabombaceae. It has divided submerged leaves in the shape of a fan and is much favoured by aquarists as an ornamental and oxygenating plant for fishtanks. Fanwort plants in the aquarium require good light and warm water temperatures.

10. Marsilea (Marsilea Quadrifolia) – Marsilea is a genus of approximately 65 species of aquatic ferns of the family Marsileaceae. The plant is anti-inflammatory, diuretic, depurative, febrifuge and refrigerant. It is also used to treat snakebite and applied to abscesses etc.

11. Quillwort (Isoetes) - Quillwort is a genus of plants in the class Isoetopsida and order Isoetales. Quillworts are mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic in clear ponds and slow-moving streams, though several grow on wet ground that dries out in the summer. Quillwort leaves are hollow and quill-like, with a minute ligule at the base of the upper surface arising from a central corm.

12. Giant Water Lily (Victoria Amazonia) - Giant Water Lily (Victoria amazonia) is a species of flowering plant, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies. The species has very large leaves, up to 3m in diameter, that float on the water's surface on a submerged stalk, 7–8 m in length. The flowers are white the first night they are open and become pink the second night. They are up to 40 cm in diameter and are pollinated by beetles.

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