Growth form

Scientific Name

Common Name

Emergent

Carex emoryi

Emory’s sedge

Echinodorus cordifolius

Creeping burhead

Justicia americana

American waterwillow

Panicum virgatum

Switchgrass

Pontederia cordata

Pickerelweed

Sagittaria platyphylla

Delta arrowhead

Schoenoplectus pungens

Three-square bulrush

Schoenoplectus californicus

Giant bulrush

Typha sp.

Cattails

Submersed

Chara vulgaris*

Muskgrass

Heteranthera dubia

Grassleaf mudplantain

Hydrilla verticillata*

Hydrilla

Myriophyllum spicatum*

Eurasian watermilfoil

Najas guadalupensis*

Southern waternymph

Potamogeton Illinoensis

Illinois pondweed

Potamogeton nodosus

American pondweed

Ruppia sp.*

Widgeongrass

Stuckenia pectinata*

Sago pondweed

Utricularia sp.*

Bladderwort

Vallisneria americana

American eelgrass