I'm in NW Arkansas and just dug a pond in August. It's spring fed and clear. This stuff has popped up in all areas where the depth is less than 6 ft. Does anyone know what it is and how to treat it? Is it a grass or macro algae? Is there even a difference? Help?
Take a single strand or two, put it in about 1" clean water in a glass baking dish with a piece of copy paper under it. Take a close clear picture of the plant you want identified.
Looking at all the photos, it's not watercress and it isn't hydrilla.
What's confusing is that it's immature. I've not seen that plant (that I know of), but my gut response it that it's a species of pondweed. If it's variable-leaf pondweed, it's not through maturing, yet. It's got all the earmarks of one of the pondweed species, but the leaves are throwing me off.
Teach a man to grow fish... He can teach to catch fish...
Looking at all the photos, it's not watercress and it isn't hydrilla.
What's confusing is that it's immature. I've not seen that plant (that I know of), but my gut response it that it's a species of pondweed. If it's variable-leaf pondweed, it's not through maturing, yet. It's got all the earmarks of one of the pondweed species, but the leaves are throwing me off.