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Table 7.1 Types and common names of aquatic weeds

Types Common name Botanical name

Submerged Hydrilla

Water milfoil

Blyxa

Hydrilla verticillata

Myriophyllum spicatum

Blyxa aubertii

Floating Water hyacinth

Duckweeds

Water lettuce

Salvinia

Eichhornia crassipes

Wolfia arrhiga

Pistia stratiotes

Salvinia spp.

Emergent Cattails

Bulrush

Reed

Typha spp.

Scirpus spp.

Phragmites communis

Figure 7.1 Submerged aquatic weeds, hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata)