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 |