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Canadian Waterweed

Elodea canadensis

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 3,584, February 2,647, March 4,147, April 6,524, May 9,407, June 10,258, July 10,976, August 9,440, September 6,930, October 5,173, November 2,827, December 2,209.
United States79,789
Alaska74,121
Canada3,217
Russia2,268
Ontario2,040
Michigan824
New York793
Wisconsin638
Minnesota581
Quebec424

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
OrderAroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and allies · Alismatales
Familytape-grass family · Hydrocharitaceae
Genuswaterweeds · Elodea

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