User:Jaspergeli/My favorite aquatic plants

Aquatic plants are used to give the freshwater, brackish, and saltwater or marine aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, absorb ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrates. Some aquarium fish and invertebrates also eat live plants. Hobbyists use aquatic plants for aquascaping, of several aesthetic styles.

Most of these plant species are found either partially or fully submerged in their natural habitat. Although there are a handful of obligate aquatic plants that must be grown entirely underwater, most can grow fully emerged if the soil is moist.

Though some tend to tend to live at the water margins, they can live in the completely submerged habitat if periodically and occasionally. There are plants that tend to live on land, but can also live in water.

Sometimes, aquatic plants need to just acclimate them slowly, be patient, it will take time. Aquatic plants that live on land sometimes rot when put underwater because they haven't adapted yet. Thus, the current leaves will rot and new leaves will grow as the adapted ones. Rotten leaves will still aerate the water until their tissues can't work and rotten completely. Some plants that are included can't survive in fully submerged habitat.

Some terrestrial plants can tolerate submerged condition/state.

The aquatic plants listed below are just my preferences.

Keywords:
 * Submerge/submerse - cause to be under the water.
 * Emerge/emerse - move out of the water.

Listed alphabetically by scientific name

 * Alisma plantago-aquatica - Common water-plantain
 * Alternanthera philoxeroides - Alligator weed
 * Anubias barteri
 * Azolla cristata - Carolina mosquitofern or Carolina azolla
 * Azolla filiculoides
 * Azolla nilotica
 * Azolla pinnata - Azolla, mosquitofern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern, or water velvet
 * Bacopa aquatica - Waterhyssop or water hyssop
 * Bacopa monnieri - Waterhyssop or water hyssop
 * Bolbitis serratifolia
 * Brasenia schreberi - Water shield
 * Cabomba aquatica - Fanwort
 * Centella asiatica - Asiatic pennywort or centella
 * Ceratophyllum demersum - Common hornwort
 * Crinum calamistratum
 * Crinum natans
 * Crinum thaianum - Water onion
 * Cryptocoryne aponogetifolia
 * Cyperus alternifolius - Umbrella plant
 * Echinodorus grisebachii - Amazon sword
 * Egeria densa - Large-flowered waterweed
 * Eleocharis palustris - Common spikerush
 * Elodea canadensis - Canadian waterweed
 * Equisetum arvense - Field horsetail
 * Glechoma hederacea - Ground ivy, gill-over-the-ground, creeping charlie, or field balm
 * Helanthium tenellum - Pygmy chain sword
 * Hemianthus callitrichoides - Dwarf baby tears
 * Hydrilla verticillata - Hydrilla
 * Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - Common frogbit
 * Hydrocotyle leucocephala - Brazilian marsh/water pennywort
 * Hydrocotyle verticillata - Whorled marsh/water pennywort
 * Hydrocotyle vulgaris - Common marsh/water pennywort
 * Hygrophila difformis - Water wisteria
 * Hygrophila polysperma - Dwarf hygrophila
 * Juncus acutus - Spiny rush
 * Lemna minor - Common duckweed
 * Lilaeopsis brasiliensis - Micro sword
 * Lilaeopsis chinensis - Micro sword
 * Limnobium laevigatum - West Indian or South American spongeplant and Amazon or smooth frogbit
 * Marsilea crenata
 * Marsilea hirsuta
 * Marsilea minuta - Dwarf waterclover
 * Marsilea quadrifolia - Four-leaf clover or European waterclover
 * Microsorum pteropus - Java fern
 * Micranthemum umbrosum
 * Myriophyllum spicatum - Eurasian watermilfoil
 * Najas marina - Spiny water nymph
 * Nuphar lutea - Yellow water-lily
 * Nymphaea alba - European white water lily
 * Nymphaea gigantea - Giant water lily
 * Nymphaea lotus - Tiger lotus
 * Nymphaea mexicana - Yellow water lily
 * Nymphoides peltata - Fringed water-lily, yellow floatingheart or water fringe
 * Oenanthe fistulosa - Tubular water dropwort
 * Oenanthe javanica - Java water dropwort
 * Oenanthe sarmentosa - Water parsley
 * Pistia stratiotes - Water lettuce
 * Pogostemon plectrantoides
 * Potamogeton natans - Broad-leaved pondweed, floating pondweed, or floating-leaf pondweed
 * Sagittaria sagittifolia - Arrowhead
 * Salvinia natans - Floating fern
 * Sarracenia flava - Yellow pitcher plant
 * Sarracenia purpurea - Purple pitcher plant
 * Stuckenia pectinata - Sago pondweed or fennel pondweed
 * Taxiphyllum barbieri - Java moss
 * Vallisneria spiralis - Straight vallisneria, tape grass, or eel grass
 * Wolffia arrhiza - Spotless watermeal
 * Wolffia globosa - Asian watermeal