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Hairlike Pondweed

Potamogeton trichoides

Hairlike Pondweed
Photo: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Potamogetonaceae (Potamogeton family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Native range
Europe to C. Asia, Canary Is. to N. Africa, Uganda to S. Africa
Climate
temperate

About

Potamogeton trichoides is a species of aquatic plant known by the common name hairlike pondweed, native to Europe and western Asia where it grows in calcareous, usually nutrient-rich standing or slow-flowing water.

How to grow it

Potamogeton trichoides is not in general cultivation, and is of little garden merit.

Where it grows

Potamogeton trichoides is native to the western Palaearctic and Africa. It occurs in northern Europe (Austria, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy (including Sicily), Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, the Baltic States), North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), eastern and southern Africa (South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe). There are outlying populations in the Canaries, the Caucasus, and Russia east of the Urals.

Other Potamogeton plants

Sharp-leaved pondweed · Alpine pondweed · Largeleaf pondweed · Small Pondweed · Red Pondweed · Little aguja pondweed · Fen Pondweed · Grass-wrack pondweed · Tuckerman's pondweed · Curly pondweed · Little-leaf pondweed · Pondweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Potamogeton trichoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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