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Potamogeton octandrus
Little Pondweed is a small submerged aquatic plant that grows in slow-moving fresh water such as lakes and ponds. It is grown in water rather than in soil, and it needs still or slow water with plenty of light.
Potamogeton octandrus is an aquatic plant species in the genus Potamogeton. It is found in slow-moving fresh water. The specific epithet means 'eight-stamened'.
This is a common plant in lakes and ponds. It is known from Africa, Asia (Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam (type), Indonesia (type of P. javanicus), and Papua New Guinea), and Australia (type of P. tenuicaulis).
Alpine pondweed · Small Pondweed · Fen Pondweed · Grass-wrack pondweed · Curly pondweed · Little-leaf pondweed · Pondweed · Waterthread pondweed · Ribbonleaf pondweed · Variableleaf pondweed · Illinois pondweed · Potamogeton ×inbaensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Potamogeton octandrus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
