Somes Pond
Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine
MIDAS 4614
Aquatic Plants
The following is a composite list, generated from all available plant data for this lake. The list may draw from one or multiple sources. The quality and completeness of the data will vary from lake to lake, depending upon the scope and the purpose of survey, as well as the level of expertise of the surveyor/s. Some surveys, for example those done by trained volunteers as part of and invasive aquatic plant screening surveys, have not been checked for accuracy, and are often not complete.
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(If no species display below, there are no data for this lake in our database. If you have additional data, please contact us. NOTE: MAPS MAY BE SLOW TO LOAD DEPENDING ON QUERY.)
aquatic moss spp. aquatic moss spp. arrowhead, common Sagittaria latifolia arrowhead, grass-leaved Sagittaria graminea arrowhead, spp. Sagittaria spp. bladderwort, common Utricularia vulgaris bladderwort, floating Utricularia radiata bladderwort, large purple Utricularia purpurea bladderwort, lesser Utricularia minor bladderwort, northern Utricularia intermedia bladderwort, spp. Utricularia spp. bur-reed, American Sparganium americanum bur-reed, floating leaf Sparganium fluctuans bur-reed, narrow floating-leaf Sparganium angustifolium bur-reed, spp. (emergent) Sparganium spp. coontail Ceratophyllum demersum little floating heart Nymphoides cordata loosestrife, swamp Decodon verticillatus metaphyton (colonial algae "clouds") metaphyton naiad, thread-like Najas gracillima pickerel weed Pontedaria cordata pipewort Eriocaulon aquaticum pondweed, Berchtold's slender Potamogeton berchtoldii pondweed, fern Potamogeton robbinsii pondweed, floating-leaf Potamogeton natans pondweed, ribbon-leaf Potamogeton epihydrous pondweed, small Potamogeton pusilloid spp. pondweed, snail-seed Potamogeton bicupulatus pondweed, spiral-fruited Potamogeton spirillus pondweed, spp. Potamogeton spp. quillwort Isoetes spp. rush, bayonet Juncus militaris rush, brown-fruited Juncus pelocarpus spatterdock Nuphar variegata spikerush, needle Eleocharis acicularis spikerush, Robbin's Eleocharis robbinsii sponge, freshwater spp. sponge, freshwater stonewort spp. Nitella spp. water lily, fragrant Nymphaea odorata water lobelia Lobelia dortmanna water-milfoil, alternate-flowered Myriophyllum alterniflorum water-milfoil, dwarf Myriophyllum tenellum water-milfoil, spp. Myriophyllum spp. watershield Brasenia schreberi waterwort Elatine minima wild celery (eel grass) Vallisneria americana
