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Habitat Type:
Members of Lentic Habitats:
Estuaries and Sounds
Deep Water Lakes
General Beaver Ponds and Semi-natural Impoundments
Isolated Pools
Coastal Plain Still and Sluggish Waters
Coastal Plain Herbaceous Ponds and Sloughs
Montane Herbaceous Ponds
General Still and Sluggish Waters
Coastal Plain Blackwater Ponds and Streams
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Lentic Habitats
General Herbaceous Ponds
Habitat Overview
Shallow ponds supporting masses of aquatic plant species with floating stems and leaves. The original habitats for these species across the state -- as represented by this general habitat type -- was probably beaver ponds.
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FORBS
Ceratophyllum demersum
- Common Hornwort
G5
S3
1.49
0.5000
Elodea canadensis
- Canadian Waterweed
G5
S1
5.39
0.8300
Elodea nuttallii
- Nuttall's Waterweed
G5
S2
2.84
0.6650
Lemna minor
- Common Duckweed
G5
S2
2.84
0.6650
Lemna perpusilla
- Minute Duckweed
G5
S4
1.00
0.2500
Lemna valdiviana
- Valdivia Duckweed
G5
S3
1.49
0.5000
Nuphar advena
- Broadleaf Pond-lily
G5
S5
1.00
0.0000
Nymphaea odorata
- Fragrant Water-lily
G5
S4
1.00
0.2500
Potamogeton amplifolius
- Largeleaf Pondweed
G5
S1
5.39
0.8300
Potamogeton berchtoldii
- Slender Pondweed
G5
S2
2.84
0.6650
Potamogeton diversifolius
- Waterthread Pondweed
G5
S5
1.00
0.0000
Potamogeton epihydrus
- Ribbonleaf Pondweed
G5
S3
1.49
0.5000
Potamogeton foliosus
- Leafy Pondweed
G5
S2
2.84
0.6650
Potamogeton nodosus
- Longleaf Pondweed
G5
SH
5.39
0.9150
Potamogeton pulcher
- Spotted Pondweed
G5
S4
1.00
0.2500
Potamogeton pusillus
- Small Pondweed
G5
S4
1.00
0.2500
Utricularia gibba
- Humped Bladderwort
G5
S4
1.00
0.2500
MOTHS
Elophila gyralis
- Waterlily Borer Moth
GNR
S3S4
1.08
0.3750
Elophila icciusalis
- Pondside Pyralid Moth
GNR
S3S4
1.08
0.3750
Elophila obliteralis
- Waterlily Leafcutter Moth
GNR
S4S5
1.00
0.1250
Elophila tinealis
GNR
S3S4
1.08
0.3750
Parapoynx maculalis
- Polymorphic Pondweed Moth
GNR
S1S3
2.84
0.6650
Sum: 46.08
ENE Value of 10.1500 * (1 - # of S5: 2 / # Species 22) = 9.23
Average of 22: 2.09
Phagic and Competitory Symbioses:
(Nymphaea species/Elophila gyralis)
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(Lemna species/Elophila tinealis)
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Updated on
2019-12-02 17:13:57
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