Naiad Family:-

Naiad Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Holly-leaved Naiad

(Spiny Najad)

Najas marina

July-August

It grows in meso-eutrophic water over deep substrates of peat or silty mud in the Norfolk broads. It is a dioecious annual, with both male and female plants in Britain. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Slender Naiad

(Nodding Waternymph)

Najas flexilis

(Caulinia flexilis), Najas caespitosus, Najas canadensis)

August-September

This aquatic plant is an annual which is usually found in deep, clear, mesotrophic lakes where the water receives some base-enrichment from nearby basalt, limestone or calcareous dune-sand. Lowland.. The Ecology of Najas flexilis - Commissioned Report No. 017 by the Scottish Natural Heritage. Young shoots can be eaten raw or cooked.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Genus: Najas with Common Names, Botanical Names and Synonyms.