Hydrilla – The perfect aquatic weed
Aliases: Water thyme, Florida elodea, Indian starvine, oxygen plant.
Hydrilla is an aquatic plant (lake weed or pond weed) which grows on long stems with many leaves. Hydrilla leaves are about 1/2 inch long with a pointed tip and teeth on the edges. Hydrilla grows very fast. If conditions are good, it will grow an inch in one day. Hydrilla also gets very large. One Hydrilla stem can be over 25 feet long.
Hydrilla (lake weed/ pond weed) can grow and survive in water few inches in depth to up to 20 feet. Hydrilla can grow in just about any clean water, including lakes ponds, river, streams, and marsh.
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