Transcript Plants 5: Shoreline

Shoreline,
Emergent and
Aquatic Plant
Species
broadleaved arrow-head
Sagittaria latifolia
•Arrow-shaped
leaves
•White flower
with 3 petals
water-arum
Calla palustris
swamp beggar-ticks
Bidens cernua
http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellow
opp/Bidens_cernua_page.html
jewelweed
(spotted touch-me-not)
Impatiens capensis
•Can help relieve
itching (maybe
from stinging
nettle)
•Bright orange
spotted flowers
water-shield
Brasenia schreberi
•Oval-shaped pads
•Stem arises from
middle of plant
•No slits in leaf
•Stem and leaf
underside covered
in thick slime
sedge
Carex spp.
•Can look like Iris
and/or Typha
BUT!!!!
•Triangular shape to
leaf
reed canary grass
Phalaris arundinacea
•Swollen nodes
•Often times top
seed stalk is at an
angle from the rest
of the plant
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Eurasian watermilfoil
Myriophyllum
spicatum
•Feathery look
•Usually a red stem
•Can form flower stalk like many
other Potamogetons
•Best way to tell this plant from
Northern milfoil… when Eurasian
is pulled out of the water it goes
limp. When Northern milfoil is
pulled out it holds it’s form.
northern blue flag iris
Iris versicolor
•Leaves are folded at the midribs
so they overlap each other
•Smooth, sword-like leaves
lesser duckweed
Lemna minor
•One of the smallest
duckweeds
•Has long hanging roots
but smaller and
shorter roots than
other duckweeds
•Used in many studies,
including Dave Tillman’s
ecology course
purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
•Very invasive
•Looks a bit like fireweed, don’t get
them confused
white water lily
Nymphaea odorata
•Round floating-leaf with a slit
•Round stem
•White, showy and fragrant flowers
smartweed
Polygonum spp.
pickerelweed
Pontederia cordata
•Emergent vegetation
•Bright purple flower
stalks
pondweed
Potamogeton spp.
cattail
Typha spp.
willow
Salix spp.
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=86
speckled alder
Alnus incana
http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/shrubs/alnusincana.html