Potamogeton natans (Floating Pondweed) - photos and description
Stigmas
light pink in colour
General: Aquatic perennial with floating leaves. Rhizomatous and glabrous.
Flowers: Flowers in a dense, cylindric, green spike, the spike measured at 4 cm long. The flowers have 4 green bracts, bract measured at 3 mm diameter, stigmas light pink in colour, and arched in appearance.
Leaves: There are two types of leaves - floating leaves are alternate, elliptical, leathery, brownish-green, measured at 7 cm long and 4 cm wide; submerged leaves linear measured at 11 cm long and 2 mm wide.
Height: We measured flowering stems rising to 6 cm out of the water.
Habitat: Ponds and slow moving water in the boreal forest.
Abundance: Listed as fairly common in Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.
Origin: Native.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos in a roadside pond, 1 meter depth of water, July 7th, boreal forest, about 450 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.