Invasive Plants and Their Native Alternatives: Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)
Karen Common water hyacinth is a floating perennial native to the Amazon River Basin where it grows it wet habitats but was introduced into the US in 1884 at the World’s…
Plant Profile: Pickeral Weed (Pontederia cordata)
Pickerel weed is a deciduous emergent aquatic plant and a member of the Pontederiaceae a small family of tropical and subtropical aquatic plants including water hyacinth. It is native to…