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Water Chestnut
Trapa natans
Fills ponds and lakes from top to bottom; seeds viable for a long period of time, spiny seeds harmful to people wading
Additional Resources
MISC Invader of the Month press release. June 2004
Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas. National Park Service
Maryland DNR
Invasive.org
Alfred Colfrancesco, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bugwood.org
Fruit with sharp, half-inch long spines. Photo: Steve Hurst, USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, Bugwood.org
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