Potamogeton natans L.
Family – Potamogetonaceae
Common name – Broad-leaved pondweed
(Submerged aquatic plant)
🌼Small green flowers
🌼It produces both floating and submersed leaves on the same plant.
🌼The shape of the floating leaves depends on the shape of the current, with faster current resulting in more elongated the leaves and less cordate leaf bases.
🌼It can be used as an oxygenator of ponds.
🌼 Medicinal uses –
The plant is used as febrifuge.
Sugimani Marndi
Biodiversity and Conservation Lab.
Ambika Prasad Research Foundation
Cuttack, Odisha