Floating Pondweed, Floatingleaf Pondweed, Floating-leaved Pondweed
Potamogeton natans
The photo above shows the floating leaves and spike of floating pondweed as seen in a canal along the Willard Springs Trail at Conboy Lake NWR..........August 17, 2007. The base of the leaves of this species are rounded to cordate (heart-shaped) as seen here.
Floating pondweed covering the canal that originates at Willard Springs, Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge.........September 20, 2012.
The photo above shows the floating leaves and spike of floating pondweed as seen in a canal along the Willard Springs Trail at Conboy Lake NWR..........August 17, 2007.
The photo above shows a close-up of the floating leaves of floating pondweed as seen in the central canal through Conboy Lake NWR as seen at Kreps Lane.........July 31, 2008. Note again the rounded to slightly heart-shaped base to the leaves of this species.
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The photo above shows a close-up of the floating leaves of floating pondweed as seen in the central canal through Conboy Lake NWR as seen at Kreps Lane.......July 31, 2008.
The floating leaves of floating pondweed as seen in an old irrigatin canal along the Willard Springs Trail at Conboy Lake NWR..........August26, 2018.
Paul Slichter