Baby Pondweed

Potamogeton pusillus

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Botanical name
Potamogeton pusillus
Also known as
Baby Pondweed, Lesser Pondweed, Slender Pondweed, Small Pondweed
Family
Potamogetonaceae
Genus
Potamogeton
Reference
World Flora Online

How to grow Baby Pondweed

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Other names for this plant

These names have all been used for Potamogeton pusillus but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.

Buccaferrea pusilla Potamogeton aschersonii Potamogeton aschersonii f. pusilloides Potamogeton badius Potamogeton berteroanus Potamogeton caespitosus Potamogeton compressus var. elongatus Potamogeton denticulatus Potamogeton dualis Potamogeton exiguus Potamogeton gracilis Potamogeton lateralis f. incompletus Potamogeton lateralis f. subcompletus Potamogeton millardii Potamogeton panormitanus Potamogeton panormitanus var. major Potamogeton panormitanus var. minor Potamogeton panormitanus var. minor Potamogeton pusilliformis Potamogeton pusillus prol. panormitanus Potamogeton pusillus subsp. argentinus Potamogeton pusillus subsp. panormitanus Potamogeton pusillus subsp. pusillus Potamogeton pusillus subsp. sturrockii Potamogeton pusillus subsp. sturrockii Potamogeton pusillus subvar. interruptus Potamogeton pusillus var. africanus Potamogeton pusillus var. capillaris Potamogeton pusillus var. capitatus Potamogeton pusillus var. elongatus Potamogeton pusillus var. lacunatus Potamogeton pusillus var. latifolius Potamogeton pusillus var. latifolius Potamogeton pusillus var. longepedunculatus Potamogeton pusillus var. major Potamogeton pusillus var. minor Potamogeton pusillus var. panormitanus Potamogeton pusillus var. panormitanus Potamogeton pusillus var. panormitanus Potamogeton pusillus var. pseudorutilus Potamogeton pusillus var. pusillus Potamogeton pusillus var. sphaerocarpus Potamogeton pusillus var. tenuifolius Potamogeton pusillus var. typicus Potamogeton pusillus var. vulgaris Potamogeton reichenbachii Potamogeton rutilus subsp. caespitosus Potamogeton sturrockii Potamogeton subjavanicus Potamogeton subtrichodes Potamogeton tenuifolius Potamogeton tenuissimus Potamogeton tenuissimus Potamogeton trichoides Potamogeton trinervius Potamogeton turionifer Potamogeton turionifer var. mucronulatus Potamogeton turionifer var. tenuis Spirillus pusillus

Others in Potamogeton

Potamogeton × spathuliformis
Potamogeton × apertus
Potamogeton × bennettii
Potamogeton × inbaensis
Potamogeton × leptocephalus nothovar. fujiensis
Potamogeton anguillanus
Potamogeton × aemulans
Potamogeton × belorussicus

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