order
Aroids, Water Plantains, Seagrass, and Allies
Alismatales
Field notes
Children
- Water-plantains 32 native
- Pondweed Family 30 native
- Arums and Duckweeds 28 native
- Tape-grasses 12 native
- Tofieldia Family 8 native
- Arrowgrass Family 5 native
- Eel Grasses and Surf Grasses 4 native
- Manatee-grass Family 2 native
- Widgeonweeds 2 native
- Pod-grass Family 1 native
- Posidonia Family
- Flowering-rush Family
- Aponogeton Family
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Top native aroids, water plantains, seagrass, and allies All
Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Diverse-leaved Pondweed
Potamogeton diversifolius
caterpillars
6
food
14
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Floating-leaved Pondweed
Potamogeton natans
caterpillars
5
food
19
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Broad-leaved Pondweed
Potamogeton amplifolius
caterpillars
5
food
19
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Small Pondweed
Potamogeton pusillus
caterpillars
5
food
17
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Richardson's Pondweed
Potamogeton richardsonii
caterpillars
5
food
16
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White-stemmed Pondweed
Potamogeton praelongus
caterpillars
5
food
16
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Eel-grass Pondweed
Potamogeton zosteriformis
caterpillars
5
food
14
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Spotted Pondweed
Potamogeton pulcher
caterpillars
5
food
14
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Broadleaf Arrowhead
Sagittaria latifolia
caterpillars
4
hosts
1
food
22
flowers
59
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Northern Pondweed
Potamogeton alpinus
caterpillars
4
food
19
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Perfoliate Pondweed
Potamogeton perfoliatus
caterpillars
4
food
18
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Grass-leaved Pondweed
Potamogeton gramineus
caterpillars
4
food
18
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Berchtold's Pondweed
Potamogeton berchtoldii
caterpillars
4
food
18
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Longleaf Pondweed
Potamogeton nodosus
caterpillars
4
food
16
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Shining Pondweed
Potamogeton illinoensis
caterpillars
4
food
16