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§1 Plant

Potamogeton perfoliatus L.

vernacular claspingleaf pondweed — species · Potamogetonaceae


USDA
POPE7
GBIF
5301200
Rank
species
claspingleaf pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus)
Platephotograph · Siegfried Baesler source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Potamogetonaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Potamogeton
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 173 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 173 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 173 counties across 18 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 2 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Maryland view state ↗ 8 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 5 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N
New York view state ↗ 37 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 6 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POPE7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5301200 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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