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Report created on Tue May 13 17:37:45 CDT 2008
                 
Submergent Species

 Mississippi RiverIllinois River
  Pool 4Pool 5Pool 7Pool 8Pool 12Pool 13Pool 26Upper Alton PoolLa Grange Pool
bladderwort, common *   * *   *      
buttercup, longbeak *     *   *      
chara * * * *   *      
coontail * * * * * * *    
crowfoot, threadleaf *                
pondweed, Richardson's * * * *          
pondweed, alpine *                
pondweed, curly * * * * * * *    
pondweed, flatstem * * * *   *      
pondweed, horned * *   *   *      
pondweed, leafy             *    
pondweed, leafy/small * * * * * *      
pondweed, longleaf * * * * * * *    
pondweed, ribbonleaf *                
pondweed, sago * * * * * * *    
pondweed, small             *    
stargrass, water * * * * * * *    
watermilfoil, Eurasian * * * * * *      
watermilfoil, northern *     *   *      
waternymph, brittle         * *      
waternymph, nodding * * * *          
waternymph, southern *         * *    
waterweed, Canadian * * * * * * *    
wildcelery * * * * * * *    

Note: Pools 5, 7 and 12 and Upper Alton Pool were only sampled in 2002.


Rooted Floating-leaf Species

 Mississippi RiverIllinois River
  Pool 4Pool 5Pool 7Pool 8Pool 12Pool 13Pool 26Upper Alton PoolLa Grange Pool
lotus, American * * * * * * *   *
pondlily, yellow * * * *          
primrosewillow, floating             *    
primrosewillow, wingleaf                 *
waterhyssop, disk             *    
waterlily, white * * * * * *      

Note: Pools 5, 7 and 12 and Upper Alton Pool were only sampled in 2002.


Emergent Species

 Mississippi RiverIllinois River
  Pool 4Pool 5Pool 7Pool 8Pool 12Pool 13Pool 26Upper Alton PoolLa Grange Pool
Indianhemp             *    
amaranth, roughfruit             * *  
amaranth, tall             *    
arrowhead, arumleaf             *    
arrowhead, broadleaf * * * * * * * * *
arrowhead, stiff *   * * * * *    
ash, green             * *  
aster, calico             *    
barnyardgrass *           * *  
barnyardgrass, common             *    
barnyardgrass, rough             *    
barnyardgrass, very rough             *    
bedstraw, blunt             *    
bedstraw, bluntleaf             *    
beggarticks, bearded             *    
beggarticks, nodding             *    
bindweed             *    
birch, river             *    
bluegrass, annual             *    
bluejacket             *    
bulrush, river *   * * * * *   *
bulrush, softstem * * * *   *      
burreed, giant * * * * * * *    
buttonbush, common *     *   * * *  
canarygrass, reed * * * * * *      
cattail, common * * * * * *      
cattail, narrowleaf * * * *          
clearweed, Canadian       *          
cocklebur, rough             * *  
cottonwood, eastern *           * *  
creeper, trumpet             *    
cucumber, oneseed burr             *    
cutgrass, rice * * * * * * *   *
daisy, false             *    
dayflower, climbing             *    
dock, curly *                
dock, swamp             *    
elm, American             * *  
fanpetals, prickly             *    
flatsedge, bearded             *    
flatsedge, fragrant             *    
flatsedge, redroot             * *  
flatsedge, straw-colored             *    
fogfruit, lanceleaf             *    
grape, frost             *    
grape, graybark               *  
grass, coast cockspur             *    
grass, cockspur             *    
greenbrier, bristly             *    
hackberry, common             *    
hedgehyssop, roundfruit             *    
hemlock, bulblet-bearing water       *          
hogweed, little             *    
knotweed, curlytop       *     *    
knotweed, water *   * *   * *    
locust             *    
loosestrife, purple *     *   *      
lovegrass, Indian             *    
lovegrass, sandbar             *    
lovegrass, tufted               *  
maple, silver       *   * * *  
milkweed, swamp       *     *    
millet, Japanese                 *
monkeyflower, Allegheny *                
mulberry, red             *    
nettle, false             *    
nettle, stinging       *   *      
panicgrass, fall             *    
paspalum, horsetail             *    
persimmon, common             *    
pickerelweed * * * *   *      
pimpernel, yellowseed false             *    
plant, obedient             *    
poison ivy, eastern             *    
primrosewillow, floating             *   *
ragweed, great             *    
redstem             *    
redstem, valley             *    
rice, wild *   * *          
rosemallow, crimsoneyed             *    
rosemallow, halberdleaf             *    
rush, common             *    
sandmat, matted             *    
sedge, blunt broom             *    
sedge, ravenfoot             *    
sedge, shoreline             *    
sedge, threeway             *    
smartweed, Penn             * *  
smartweed, Pennsylvania           * *    
smartweed, common Pennsylvania             *    
smartweed, dotted     *            
smartweed, longroot             *    
smartweed, swamp             * *  
spikerush, beaked *                
spikerush, common *                
sprangletop, Amazon             * *  
sprangletop, bearded             *    
sprangletop, muronate             *    
stonecrop, ditch             *    
swampprivet, eastern             *    
thoroughwort, lateflowering             *    
ticktrefoil             *    
verbena, swamp *                
water dock, greater       *          
watercress       *          
waterplantain, American *           *    
whitestar             *    
wildrye, Virginia             *    
willow, black           * * *  
willow, coastal plain             *    
willow, peachleaf             *    
willow, sandbar *     *   * *    
woodsorrel             *    
yellowcress, Fernald's             *    

Note: Pools 5, 7 and 12 and Upper Alton Pool were only sampled in 2002.


Filamentous Algae

 Mississippi RiverIllinois River
  Pool 4Pool 5Pool 7Pool 8Pool 12Pool 13Pool 26Upper Alton PoolLa Grange Pool
algae, filamentous * * * * * * *   *


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