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Potamogetonaceae

Sheathed pondweed

Stuckenia vaginata (Magnin) Holub

Family
Potamogetonaceae
Genus
Stuckenia

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Sheathed pondweed: Sheathed pondweed from the Baltic Sea, north of Luleå, Sweden in Örnabben. Link to google maps: https://maps.google.se/maps?ll=65.694983,22.265998&spn=0.047339,
Photo: Håkan Sandsten, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (5)
Chinese
鞘叶眼子菜, 鞘葉眼子菜
English
Sheathed pondweed
Finnish
Tuppivita
Norwegian Nynorsk
Sliretjønnaks
Swedish
Slidnate

Synonyms

  • Coleogeton vaginatus (Magnin) Les & R.R.Haynes
  • Potamogeton filiformis prol. vaginatus (Magnin) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Potamogeton filiformis subvar. tenuior Tiselius ex Asch. & Graebn.
  • Potamogeton filiformis subvar. validior (Tiselius) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Potamogeton moniliformis H.St.John
  • Potamogeton pectinatus subsp. vaginatus Magnin
  • Potamogeton pectinatus subvar. vaginatus (Magnin) Hegi
  • Potamogeton pectinatus subvar. validior (Tiselius) Graebn.
  • Potamogeton pectinatus var. vaginatus (Magnin) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Potamogeton subretusus Hagstr.
  • Potamogeton vaginalis J.Fisch.
  • Potamogeton vaginatus Turcz.
  • Potamogeton vaginatus f. tenuior Tiselius
  • Potamogeton vaginatus f. validior Tiselius
  • Potamogeton vaginatus var. canadensis Hagstr.
  • Stuckenia subretusa (Hagstr.) Holub

Characteristics

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.