Draft:List of Free-Floating Plants
List of free-floating plants includes all plants that freely float on the surface of water bodies and are usually not attached to any sediment through roots.[1]
Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)
- Ricciocarpos natans - fringed heartwort
- Riccia sp. - floating crystalwort[2]
Ferns (Polypodiophyta)
- Salvinia sp. - watermoss[3], water spangles
- Azolla sp. - mosquito fern, fairy moss
Flowering plants (Angiospermae)
Monocots
Aroids (Araceae)
Lemnoideae
- Wolffia sp. - watermeal[4]
- Lemna sp. - duckweed
- Wolffiella sp. - bogmat
- Spirodela polyrhiza - duckmeat[5], greater duckweed[6]
Aroideae
- Pistia stratiotes - water lettuce, water cabbage
Hydrocharitaceae
- Limnobium laevigatum - spongeplant, amazon frogbit
- Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - european frogbit
- Stratiotes aloides - water soldier[7], water pineapple
Commelinales
- Pontederia crassipes - water hyacinth
- Pontederia cordata - pickerelweed
Grasses (Poaceae)
- Hygroryza aristata - Asian water grass[8], floating rice
Eudicots
Malpighiales
- Phyllanthus fluitans - red root floater[9], floating spurge[10]
Myrtales
- Trapa natans - water caltrop, water chestnut[11]
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References
- Hiscock, Peter (2003). Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants. United States and Canada: Interpret Publishing. ISBN 0-7641-5521-0.
- ^ Scheffer, Marten; Szabó, Sándor; Gragnani, Alessandra; van Nes, Egbert H.; Rinaldi, Sergio; Kautsky, Nils; Norberg, Jon; Roijackers, Rudi M. M.; Franken, Rob J. M. (April 2003). "Floating plant dominance as a stable state". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (7): 4040–4045. Bibcode:2003PNAS..100.4040S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0737918100. PMC 153044. PMID 12634429.
- ^ Edwards, Sean R. (2012). English Names for British Bryophytes. British Bryological Society Special Volume. Vol. 5 (4 ed.). Wootton, Northampton: British Bryological Society. ISBN 978-0-9561310-2-7. ISSN 0268-8034.
- ^ "USDA Plants Database". plants.sc.egov.usda.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ^ "Archived TJM 1993 treatment for WOLFFIA". ucjeps.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ^ Whisenant, Steven G. (2018). "Common Rangeland Plants of West Central Texas by George Clendenin, USDA–Natural Resources Conservation Service (review)". Great Plains Research. 28 (2): 219. doi:10.1353/gpr.2018.0043. ISSN 2334-2463.
- ^ Atkinson, R. (1998). "andelions of Great Britain and Ireland. BSBI Handbook No. 9. A. A. Dudman & A. J. Richards". Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 55 (2): 321–322. doi:10.1017/S0960428600002249. ISSN 1474-0036.
- ^ "USDA Plants Database". plants.sc.egov.usda.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ^ "USDA Plants Database". plants.sc.egov.usda.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ^ "Phyllanthus fluitans Benth. ex Müll.Arg". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-27. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Trapa names".
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