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Aquatic plants — also called '''hydrophytic plants''' or '''hydrophytes''' — are plants that have adapted to living in or on Aquatic Environments . Because living on or under the Water surface requires numerous special adaptations, aquatic plants can only grow in water or permanently saturated Soil . Aquatic Vascular Plant s can be Fern s or Angiosperms (from both Monocot and Dicot families). Seaweed s are not vascular plants but multicellular Marine Algae , and therefore not typically included in the category, "aquatic plants."

Many fish keepers and Aquarium hobbyists keep aquatic plants in their tanks to oxygenate the water for their fish.

Many species of aquatic plant are Invasive Species in different parts of the world. Aquatic plants make particularly good Weed s because they Reproduce Vegetatively from fragments.

Examples:
  • '' Utricularia '' (from Latin, ''utriculus'', a little bag or bottle) is a genus of slender aquatic plants, the leaves of which are furnished with floating bladders. They are called Bladderwort s.

  • Water Lettuce



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Especially in (South-east) Asia edible Water-plants are suspicious to transmit Fasciolopsiasis
by eating them uncooked. {Link without Title}
:(Compare also: '' Fasciola Hepatica '')


REFERENCE

Cook, C.D.K. (ed). 1974. Water Plants of the World. Dr W Junk Publishers, The Hague. ISBN 9061930243

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