The other plants with the little leaves are various species of duckweed -- I'll have to devote a whole post to those one of these days. The barely submerged, darker green gunk is some type of algae.
Our hot, dry June has left us with more algae than we like to see this time of year. As it dies and begins to decay, the algae will take up a good bit of the dissolved oxygen in the water. What we need is a nice soaking rain that will cause the pond to rise and move some of the floating mats of algae out and areate the pond at the same time.
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I love Azolla! It's such a great story of symbiosis with nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria.
I see duckweed there too, it looks like, but is that also Salvinia, actually another water fern?
The odor of decaying algae aint so grand, either. We're treated to that once a year, when the back of our lot starts to dry up.
Phew.
Yikes, Wayne!!! Bite your tongue! No, it isn't Salvinia, thank goodness.
But there is quite a mix of Spirodela,Lemna sp., Wolffia, and Wolffiella in there (or so those botanist-types once told me).
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