Jordan Pond

Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine
MIDAS 4608

Aquatic Plants

The following is a composite list, generated from all available plant data for this lake. The list may draw from one or multiple sources. The quality and completeness of the data will vary from lake to lake, depending upon the scope and the purpose of survey, as well as the level of expertise of the surveyor/s. Some surveys, for example those done by trained volunteers as part of and invasive aquatic plant screening surveys, have not been checked for accuracy, and are often not complete.

Click on the MAP links to view the statewide species distributions using our Species Mapper.

(If no species display below, there are no data for this lake in our database. If you have additional data, please contact us. NOTE: MAPS MAY BE SLOW TO LOAD DEPENDING ON QUERY.)

aquatic moss spp. aquatic moss spp. bur-reed, floating leaf Sparganium fluctuans bur-reed, spp. (emergent) Sparganium spp. metaphyton (colonial algae "clouds") metaphyton pipewort Eriocaulon aquaticum pondweed, floating-leaf Potamogeton natans pondweed, ribbon-leaf Potamogeton epihydrous pondweed, variable Potamogeton gramineus quillwort Isoetes spp. rush, bayonet Juncus militaris rush, brown-fruited Juncus pelocarpus rush, Canadian Juncus canadensis sedge, spp. Carex spp. St. Johnswort, spp. Hypericum spp. threeway sedge Dulichium arundinaceum water lobelia Lobelia dortmanna wild celery (eel grass) Vallisneria americana