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Elodea canadensis (American or Canadian Waterweed or Pondweed) is a perennial aquatic plant, or submergent macrophyte, native to most of North America. It was first recorded from the British Isles in about 1836. Native to most of North America. Widely naturalised in the British Isles (female plants only). In Ireland found at several sites along the Eglinton Canal, County Galway and Co. Down. and from the Lagan Canal near Lisburn, Ireland.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Form

Upright

Growth rate

Fast

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Color

White

Flowering season

Summer

Special uses

Water features or wet habitats

Sun

Full Sun

Soil description

Does best in clay soils.

Site type

Shallow water, ditches, sloughs, ponds, lakes

Plant communities

Wetland-Riparian