Botanical Illustration: Aquatic Plants: Elodea Illustration:

Elodea canadensis (Anacharis), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Elodea:
Elodea is an aquatic plant native to the United States. It is also referred to as Canadian or American waterweed (water weed). It is a common aquarium plant.

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: Elodea
Species: Elodea canadensis

More information about Elodea:
Wikipedia: Elodea
American waterweed

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Last updated: Friday, May 9th 2008