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Aquatic plants

Potamogeton ochreatus
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                  Blunt Pondweed

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Wetland Planting Zone
Submerged Marsh
Approved Format
600cc
Family
Potamogetaceae
Form
Submerged perennial herb with flattened branches, spreading from branching roots
Foliage
Blunt Pondweed has stalkless translucent narrow leaves 2.5-9cm x 2-5mm, 5 main longitudinal veins, tip rounded. Sheath at base of leaf, disintegrating into long fibres
Flowers
Flowers are on emergent terminal flowering spikes of 10-15 flowers, elongating to 15-25mm in fruit
Fruit
Nutlets 3-4mm long, laterally compressed, rounded; beak slender, recurved, conspicuous, to 1mm long
Habitat
Potamogeton ochreatus is aquatic, living in stagnant to fast flowering water to 4.5m deep in dams, swamps and watercourses. Full sun, semi-shade
Distinctive Features
Cylindrical flowers are born in October-March
Similar Species
Similar to P. crispus, which flowers in November-May and has distinctive leaf vein pattern.
Comments
Requires constant inundation in the submerged marsh

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