Potamogeton ochreatus
​                  Blunt Pondweed

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