Plant Identification and Foraging

Texas A&M's AgriLife Extension divides aquatic plant life into four categories: floating plants, submerged plants, emergent plants, and algae. Each category links to its own photo album of plants, which then details specific attributes of each plant.

Aquagenix's guide uses pictures to identify some of the most common aquatic plants in freshwater lakes and ponds.

This publication explains the benefits of aquatic plants and algae, describes the problems they cause, identifies common species, and offers practices for effectively managing them. (PDF)

The Missouri Department of Conservation lists common aquatic plants in Missouri, each with a link to its field guide and how to control their spread.

Mouritsen takes readers on a comprehensive tour of seaweed, describing what seaweeds actually are (algae, not plants) and how people of different cultures have utilized them since prehistoric times for a whole array of purposes—as food and fodder, for the production of salt, in medicine and cosmetics, as fertilizer, in construction, and for a number of industrial end uses, to name just a few.

First published in 1987, Ralph W. Tiner's A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States soon established itself as the definitive work on its subject. Now Tiner has prepared a revised and expanded edition, broadening the coverage both botanically and geographically. It emphasizes plant identification and includes descriptions of over 700 species and illustrations of approximately 550 species.

The material contained in this illustrated wetland guide will enable persons, regardless of their botanical background, to be able to identify the plants included in this guide. Three hundred species of vascular plants were chosen for inclusion in this guide after consultation with the Ecological Science and Planning Staff of the Soil Conservation Service Midwest Regional Technical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Timothy A. Block and Ann Fowler Rhoads have assembled the first identification guide specific to the Keystone State yet useful throughout the Mid Atlantic region. Organized and written in a way that will make information easily accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book highlights the diversity and vital ecological importance of this group of plants, providing photographs, illustrations, descriptions, and identification keys for all emergent, floating-leaved, and submergent aquatic plants found in the Commonwealth.