Curly Leaf Pondweed

Did you know? Curly Leaf Pondweed is a very good example of what can happen when an aquatic invasive species comes.

When you're swimming or boating out on the Lakes, under the water is a very diverse aquatic plant community—we don't see healthy lakes that don't have aquatic plants. The Iowa Lakes is home to dozens of native plant species. Curly Leaf Pondweed was first discovered in the Iowa Great Lakes we believe in about the 1940s…