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Marina

Plant Identification

Identify Your Water Problem

Algae

Filamentous Algae

  • Green looking mats on the water surface

  • Looks like slime

  • Growth starts along the shoreline or edge of the waterbody, or on the bottom

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Chara Algae

  • Can look gray, green or yellow

  • Looks similar to a plant

  • Odor and gritty texture

Pea Soup Algae

  • THIS ALGAE COULD BE TOXIC

  • Generally blooms in warmer water

  • Looks like pea soup

Starry Stonewort

  • INVASIVE SPECIES

  • Has a similar look as Chara Algae

  • Could have a creamy bulb in clusters

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Plants

Cattails

  • Long grass like plant that can reach up to about 10 feet in height

  • Provide cover for wildlife and are not invasive

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Phragmites

  • INVASIVE SPECIES

  • Can grow upwards of 15 feet tall

  • Aggressive plant that grows quickly

  • Requires multiple treatments to control and must be cut when it is dead

Watermeal

  • Very small, granular like pant

  • Generally grows in calm waters

  • Invades ponds with Duckweed

  • Displays no roots in presents

Duckweed

  • Small green leafs 

  • Found generally in ponds

  • Generally grows in calm waters

Lily Pads

  • Floating leaf plant with oval shape

  • Slimy coating can be found on stem or underside of the leaf

  • Generally found with a white or yellowish flower

Eurasian Watermilfoil

  • INVASIVE SPECIES

  • Some forms can reach 10 feet in length

  • Can calcify in hard waters

  • Tiny red colored flowers may extend water surface

Curly-Leaf Pondweed

  • INVASIVE SPECIES

  • Generally found in the spring

  • Easy to control

  • Crinkled leaves

Clasping-Leaf Pondweed

  • Stem is branched and leafy

  • It has wide wavy leaves

  • The plant grows a calcium coating during summer months

American Pondweed

  • Plant has oval leaves

  • Generally has sparse leafing

  • Found close to shore

  • Leaves alternately arranged

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