Common Name: Purple Loosestrife
Description: long thing green leaves with small purple flowers
Reproduction: produces 2-3 million seeds
Problems Caused: clogs water canals
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
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Salvinia
Scientific Name:Slavinia molesta
Common Name: Salvinia
Description: thick small round leaves
Reproduction: roots onto leaves
Problems Caused: produces thick mats and remove oxygen from the water
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
Water Lettuce
Scientific Name:Pistia stratiotes
Common Name: Water Lettuce
Description:looks like and open head of lettuce
Reproduction: through daughter plants
Problems Caused:forms a thick mat of leaves that prevent boating and vegetation
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
Water Hyacinth
Scientific Name:Eichhornia crassipes
Common Name: Water Hyacinth
Description: large green leaves and large white flowers
Reproduction: through daughter cells
Problems Caused:take up all nutrients in the water and produce H ions which acidifies the water
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
Eurasian Watermilfoil
Scientific Name:Myriophyllum spicatum
Common Name: Eurasian Watermilfoil
Description: long thin tan branches and this green leaves
Reproduction: seeds and fragments
Problems Caused:prevents sunlight from reaching the floor of a water body and prevents boating
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
Hydrilla
Scientific Name: Hydrilla verticillata
Common Name: Esthwaite Waterweed orHydrilla
Description: long stems, small leaves
Reproduction: tubers,turions, stolons and fragments
Problems Caused:takes over vegetation
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides
Alligator Weed
Scientific Name: Alternanthera philoxeroides
Common Name: Alligator Weed
Description: long stems, simple leaves, and a white puff ball like flower
Reproduction: during warm months, spreads in seed or plant fragments
Problems Caused: can grow in a variety of climates, forms a mat like web of plants which eliminate sunlight to the bottom of waterways.
Prevention: immediate removal and herbicides 
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