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Water Plants
By Ian Michael Pettigrew
Table of Contents
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Questions About Water Plants………………1
Types of Water Plants……………………….2
Providing Food and Shelter………………….3
Cattails……………………………………….4
Water Lilies………………………………….5
The Benefits of Nature………………………6
List of References……………………………7
Questions About Water Plants
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What do water plants eat?
Do they live in soil or sand?
How do water plants breathe?
What types of plants grow in fresh water?
Are water plants endangered?
Types of Water Plants
There are several types of water plants.
Some grow out of the water, along the
water’s edge, and are called “emergents”.
Some have their leaves floating on the
surface of the water.
Others grow completely submerged in the
water, with their roots in the soil.
Providing Food and Shelter
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Lawrencetown, NS
In marshes and wetlands,
water plants provide food
and shelter for certain
birds and water animals,
but these wetlands have
to be watched carefully
for destruction of the
plants by birds or disease.
Cattails
Cattails
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Cattails are a very common
freshwater plant. They can grow
to be very tall, as much as nine
feet tall.
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Cattails are different because they
have tall flowers that contain
fluffy seeds wrapped in bundles.
In the late summer or early fall the
seeds are released to make new
plants. The seeds can only grow if
they land in water.
Water Lilies
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Water Lily
There are three kinds of water
lilies: night, tropical and hardy.
Night lilies bloom at night.
The root of the lily grows in mud
at the bottom of the pond.
There are endangered because
wetlands are endangered.
They can be found on the edge of
ponds and lakes in shallow water.
The Benefits of Nature
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These are
some of the
benefits of
water plants
to nature:
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Provide food for birds, fish and
water animals.
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Pump oxygen into the water for
fish to breathe.
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Make shorelines more stable
and prevent erosion of soil.
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Provide shelter for baby fish
and fish eggs.
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Absorb too many nutrients
from the water and some
pollution
List of References
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Water Lilies:
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Wetlands/WaterLilies/WaterLily.html
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Cattails:
http://agen521.www.ecn.purdue.edu/AGEN521/epadir/wetlands/cattails.html
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MBG Net
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/plants/intro.htm
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University of Florida
Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plant Information Retrieval System:
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/ben_det.html
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Cover Image: Water Lilies by Monet