Thursday, May 31, 2007

Hydrilla!


Ack - Invader!!!
Originally uploaded by urtica.

I am currently at a meeting in Mystic, Connecticut, right near the very first place that the invasive plant Hydrilla verticillata was ever found in New England, in the late 1980s. It took people a few years after that discovery to figure out what they had, because the first samples taken were misidentified as a similar-looking species, Egeria densa.

Want more Hydrilla photos? They are yours for the non-commercial taking, via Creative Commons license, here.

1 comment:

budak said...

More aquatic plants gone wild at http://budak.blogs.com/the_annotated_budak/2007/06/streamside_vege.html