Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareThe seven species of water hyacinths comprise the genus Eichhornia of free-floating perennial aquatic plants native to tropical South America.
See also:
One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, eventually forming daughter plants.
In many areas they, particularly E.
crassipes, are important and pernicious invasive species.
For more information about the topic Water hyacinth, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Weed — A weed is an unwanted plant. The notion of "wanted" is of course entirely in the eye of the beholder. A weed in one situation might be a wildflower ... > read more
Cockatoo — A cockatoo is any of the 21 bird species belonging to the family Cacatuidae. Along with the Psittacidae family (the true parrots), they make up the ... > read more
Bean — Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or ... > read more
Purple loosestrife — Purple loosestrife is a semi-aquatic herbaceous plant belonging to the loosestrife family, Lythraceae, native to the wetlands of Eurasia. It is a ... > read more
Wild rice — The four species of wild rice comprise the genus Zizania, a group of grasses that grow in shallow water in small lakes and slow-flowing ... > read more
Conium — Conium is a genus of 2-3 species of perennial herbaceous plants in the family Apiaceae. The most familiar species is Conium maculatum (also known as ... > read more
Walnut — The walnuts are plants in the walnut family Juglandaceae. They are deciduous trees. The nuts of all the walnut species are ... > read more
Ivy — Hedera (English ivy) is a genus of about ten species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the ... > read more
Toxicodendron — Toxicodendron is a small genus of woody trees, shrubs and vines, all of which produce the skin-irritating oil urushiol, which can cause a severe ... > read more
Note: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Water hyacinth at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 