Water Plants

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Water Plants

• By Ian Michael Pettigrew

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Table of Contents

• Questions About Water Plants1
• Types of Water Plants.2
• Providing Food and Shelter.3
• Cattails.4
• Water Lilies.5
• The Benefits of Nature6
• List of References7

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Questions About Water Plants

• What do water plants eat?
• Do they live in soil or sand?
• How do water plants breathe?
• What types of plants grow in fresh water?
• Are water plants endangered?

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Types of Water Plants
There are several types of water plants. Some
grow out of the water, along the waters edge,
and are called emergents. Some have their
leaves floating on the surface of the
water. Others grow completely submerged in the
water, with their roots in the soil.
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Providing Food and Shelter

• In marshes and wetlands, water plants provide
  food and shelter for certain birds and water
  animals, but these wetlands have to be watched
  carefully for destruction of the plants by birds
  or disease.

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Cattails

• Cattails are a very common freshwater plant. They
  can grow to be very tall, as much as nine feet
  tall.
• Cattails are different because they have tall
  flowers that contain fluffy seeds wrapped in
  bundles. In the late summer or early fall the
  seeds are released to make new plants. The seeds
  can only grow if they land in water.

Cattails
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Water Lilies

• There are three kinds of water lilies night,
  tropical and hardy. Night lilies bloom at night.
• The root of the lily grows in mud at the bottom
  of the pond.
• There are endangered because wetlands are
  endangered.
• They can be found on the edge of ponds and lakes
  in shallow water.

Water Lily
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The Benefits of Nature

• Provide food for birds, fish and water animals.
• Pump oxygen into the water for fish to breathe. 
• Make shorelines more stable and prevent erosion
  of soil.
• Provide shelter for baby fish and fish eggs.
• Absorb too many nutrientsfrom the water and some
  pollution 

• These are some of the benefits of water plants to
  nature

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List of References

• Water Lilieshttp//www.twingroves.district96.k12
  .il.us/Wetlands/WaterLilies/WaterLily.html
• Cattailshttp//agen521.www.ecn.purdue.edu/AGEN52
  1/epadir/wetlands/cattails.html
• MBG Net http//mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/plants/intr
  o.htm
• University of FloridaAquatic, Wetland and
  Invasive Plant Information Retrieval
  Systemhttp//aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/ben_det.html
• Cover Image Water Lilies by Monet