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List of free-floating plants includes all plants that freely float on the surface of water bodies and are usually not attached to any sediment through roots.^[1]

Liverworts (Marchantiophyta)

Ricciocarpos natans - fringed heartwort
Riccia sp. - floating crystalwort

Ferns (Polypodiophyta)

Salvinia sp. - watermoss, water spangles

Azolla sp. - mosquito fern, fairy moss

Flowering Plants (Angiospermae)

Monocots

Aroids (Araceae)

Lemnoideae

Wolffia sp. - watermeal

Lemna sp. - duckweed

Spirodela polyrhiza - duckmeat, greater duckweed

Aroideae

Pistia stratiotes - water lettuce, water cabbage

Hydrocharitaceae

Limnobium laevigatum - spongeplant, amazon frogbit

Hydrocharis morsus-ranae - european frogbit

Commelinales

Pontederia crassipes - water hyacinth

Grasses (Poaceae)

Hygroryza aristata - asian water grass, floating rice

Eudicots

Malpighiales

Phyllanthus fluitans - red root floater, floating spurge

Myrtales

Trapa natans - water caltrop

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References

Hiscock, Peter (2003). Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants. United States and Canada: Interpret Publishing. ISBN 0-7641-5521-0.

^ Scheffer, Marten; Szabó, Sándor; Gragnani, Alessandra; van Nes, Egbert H.; Rinaldi, Sergio; Kautsky, Nils; Norberg, Jon; Roijackers, Rudi M. M.; Franken, Rob J. M. (April 2003). "Floating plant dominance as a stable state". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (7): 4040–4045. doi:10.1073/pnas.0737918100. PMC 153044. PMID 12634429.

[1] Scheffer, Marten; Szabó, Sándor; Gragnani, Alessandra; van Nes, Egbert H.; Rinaldi, Sergio; Kautsky, Nils; Norberg, Jon; Roijackers, Rudi M. M.; Franken, Rob J. M. (April 2003). "Floating plant dominance as a stable state". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100 (7): 4040–4045. doi:10.1073/pnas.0737918100. PMC 153044. PMID 12634429.

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