Curled Pondweed - Potamogeton crispus
This plant has creeping rhizomes and winter buds borne directly on the stem. Leaves all submerged, narrow oblong, three to five veined and wavy with sharp serrated edges.
Lakes, ponds, slow moving streams and canals.
May to September.
Perennial.
Fairly frequent over much of Britain.
Locally frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 112 of the 617 tetrads.
David Nicholls
Launde Fish Ponds
22 September 2012
Graham Calow
Maynes Lakes, Stoke Golding
01 June 2017
David Nicholls
Bagworth Heath Woods
16 May 2013
David Nicholls
Launde Fish Ponds
22 September 2012
grooved stem
Graham Calow
Maynes Lakes, Stoke Golding
01 June 2017
Graham Calow
Witherley
18 June 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby village pond
26 April 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Curled Pondweed, Curly Pondweed
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Alismatales
- Family:
- Potamogetonaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 17
- First record:
- 09/05/2007 (Dave Wood)
- Last record:
- 19/09/2022 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Launde Fish Ponds
22 September 2012
