Aquatic plant definition

Aquatic plant means a plant, including the roots, which typically floats on water or requires water for its entire structural support, or which will desiccate outside of water.
Aquatic plant means a submergent, emergent, free− floating or floating−leaf plant and includes any part of the plant.
Aquatic plant means a plant that naturally grows in water, saturated soils, or seasonally saturated soils, including algae and submerged, floating-leafed, floating, or emergent plants.

Examples of Aquatic plant in a sentence

  • Aquatic plant management techniques will focus on reducing plant biomass and available phosphorus, which feed harmful algal blooms, while maintaining the lake in a “macrophyte dominant” state.

  • Aquatic plant management methods will mitigate, to the extent possible, negative impacts to fish and fish habitat.

  • Aquatic plant management techniques will, in part, be selected based on reducing plant biomass and available phosphorus, which feed harmful algal blooms, while maintaining Chautauqua Lake in a “macrophyte dominant” state.


More Definitions of Aquatic plant

Aquatic plant means a planktonic, submergent, emer- gent, or floating−leaf plant or any part thereof.
Aquatic plant means a submergent, emergent, floating, or floating-leaved plant, including algae, and includes any part of such a plant.
Aquatic plant means a submergent, emergent, floating− leaf, or free−floating plant or any part thereof. “Aquatic plant” does not mean wild rice.
Aquatic plant means a plant species that requires a permanently flooded freshwater habitat. [PL 2011, c. 47, §2 (AMD).]
Aquatic plant means a native or nonnative emergent, submersed, partially submersed, free-floating, or floating-leaved plant species that is dependent upon fresh, brackish, or marine water ecosystems and includes all stages of development and parts.
Aquatic plant means a submergent, emergent, or float- ing−leaf plant or any part thereof. “Aquatic plant” does not mean wild rice.
Aquatic plant means a vascular plant (floating leafed, floating, submerged, or emergent vegetation) that naturally grows in water or saturated soils.