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Plant Community: Floating leaf, Emergent
Leaf Heterophylly: No
Leaf Arrangement: 1 leaf per stem
Leaves/Whorl: N/A
Divided Leaf Pattern: N/A
Leaflet Paris: N/A
Petal Number: 3
Flower Color: White
Degree of Invasiveness in Maine: Watch list
Look-alike Species: Water lily, Little floating heart, Spatterdock, Watershield
Reproduction type: Stolon, Turion
Origin: Europe
THE PLANT: Aquatic plant; free-floating; forms dense floating colonies; unbranched root-like tendrils not attached to sediment
THE LEAVES: Floating; bouquet-like clumps that are not attached to the sediment by stems and roots; leaves 1.3-6.3 cm
THE STEM: 4-6 cm long
THE FLOWERS: 3 white petals; yellow center
THE HABITAT: Open marsh, Quiet backwaters
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