Botanical Illustration: Aquatic Plants: Eelgrass Illustration:

Eelgrass (Vallisneria americana ), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Eelgrass:
Eelgrass is also referred to as tape grass (tapegrass). It is a submersed aquatic perennial plant. Eelgrass is native in the United States.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons or monocots, having one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in the seed)
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Vallisneria

More information about Eelgrass:
Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants
Submersed Plants



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Last updated: Sunday, May 11th 2008