Aquatic Invasives

Aquatic Invasives threaten our environment by displacing native species, disrupting the food chain, interrupting infrastructure and impacting water recreation.

This guide can help you to learn to identify the invasives threatening our native waterways.

dcrinvasiveaquaticspeciesguide.pdf

DCR Invasive Aquatices Species Guide

This useful resource from theĀ  State is a helpful guide to local invasives

Submerged Plants

Variable Milfoil

(Myriophyllum heterophyllum )

Eurasian Milfoil

(Myriophyllum spicatum )

Fanwort

(Myriophyllum spicatum )

Curly Leaf Pondweed

(Potamogeton crispus)

Hyidrilla

(Hydrilla verticillata)

Coontail/Hornwort

(Ceratophyllum demersum)

Parrot-Feather

(Myriophyllum aquaticum

Bladderwort

(Utricularia)

Floating

Yellow Water Lilly

(Nuphar lutea)

Water Chestnut

(Trapa natans)

Yellow Floating Heart

(Nymphoides peltata)

Emergent

Common Reed

(Phragmites australis)

Arrowhead

(Sagittaria sagittifolia)

Purple Loosestrife
(Lythrum salicaria)

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