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Bill Cody sent me some spiral eel grass last year to see if I could get it to establish. Unfortunately, with all the rain we've had lately my forage pond is a bit muddy so I cannot see into it well to see if the spiral eel grass has taken hold. Some curly leaf pondweed hitch hiked along with it and it did take hold though, but that was sort of expected as Bill warned me about it.




Another plant has come up that I am unfamiliar with... Anyone have any idea what it is? Bill said it could possibly be wild rice, but he is not sure. Any other ideas?




I also had two small patches of what I think was wigeon grass. No close up pics of it, I will have to get some. It's the reddish patch to the upper right of the the unknown plant in this pic:



Thanks for the help on the IDs...

I have the same grass looking plant popping up in my pond this year as well. I did throw out some wild rice seed last year, but never saw any of it. I wonder if the seed could stay dormant in the pond for a year?

I thought it was a seed TORENIA or something that I had planted, but it is clear he has not; t seem to be! It grows new sets of three magazines from time to time, and seems more and more just to be increasingly high. It is also Droop at night (which is what they do in the pictures I took photos at sunset).

Looks like wild rice to me. Curly leaf pondweed? Yikes!, that is not a good hitchhiker. My least favorite pondweed, unlike American which has almost all of it's growth on the surface, that stuff is like freshwater seaweed or kelp, it has leaves from top to bottom. I have a 2 acre pond I would say is infested with it. When it draws down the stuff dies off bad, loads nutrients makes algae and the pond unsightly. One of those ponds where no herbicides as I have lilies and smartweed I want to keep. So I mow and rake and lift out big rope handled buckets full of the stuff. Get rid of that sooner than later.

eelgrass?