Elodea canadensis

Canadian Pondweed at Coree, ACT

Elodea canadensis at Coree, ACT - 23 Feb 2019
Elodea canadensis at Coree, ACT - 23 Feb 2019
Elodea canadensis at Coree, ACT - 23 Feb 2019
Elodea canadensis at Coree, ACT - 23 Feb 2019
Elodea canadensis at Coree, ACT - 23 Feb 2019
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Identification history

Elodea canadensis 24 Feb 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Elodea canadensis 24 Feb 2019 JaneR

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Significant sighting

24 Feb 2019

This is a high risk weed species, difficult to control. I will need to discuss a strategy with Park staff

User's notes

vegetative fragment, stranded on wet sand draped over ball to show off leaf arrangement (whorls of 3). Patch in shallow backwater (<20 cm deep) with milfoil and curly pondweed: not clear in photograph but photo included to give location of patch. Specimen collected for pressing: photo of specimen in clean water

3 comments

   24 Feb 2019
The location is in Hackett - is this right? As a trusted user you can edit this record and click a new location on the sighting map
JaneR wrote:
   24 Feb 2019
Correct Location is Murrumbidgee River, Uriarra Reserve.
Map now adjusted. Thank you
   25 Feb 2019
Thanks Jane

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  • 16 - 100 Abundance
  • 23 Feb 2019 07:50 PM Recorded on
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