Common Name of Plants

Observations in Louisiana

No of affected HUC

Year of 1st Observation

Year of Last Observation

Common Water Hyacinth

266

38

1915

2019

Aligator Weed

229

41

1946

2018

Parrot Feather

157

31

1915

2019

Dotted Duckweed

140

36

1961

2000

Hydrilla

115

27

1973

2015

Water Lettuce

99

17

1958

2016

Braizilian Waterweed

88

16

1960

1993

Torpedograss

75

Eurasian water milfoil

69

9

1979

2016

Creeping Waterprimrose

54

21

1986

2015

Europe Common Reed

52

Yellow Iris

46

7

1972

1993

American Frogbit

45

Fragrant Waterlily

44

Giant Salvinia

42

24

1998

2019

Carolina Fernwort

42

Water Hyancinth

30

38

1884

2018

Duck-Lettuce

30

9

1939

2007

Two leaf Watermil Foil

30

Purple Loosestrife

21

Brittle Leaf Naiad

20

Sessile Joyweed

20

Narrow-leaved Cattail

15

3

1984

2015

Curly Leaved Pondweed

10

1

1949

2015

Deeprooted Sedge

9

4

2007

2015

Yellow Fieldcress

9

3

1972

2008

Common Reed

4

Crested Floating Heart

2

1

2012

2018

White Eqyptian Lotus

2

Yellow Floating Heart

1

1

1899

1899

Feathered Mosquito Fern

1

1

2009

2009

Common Salvinia

20

1980

2018