Hydrilla

Hydrilla

Hydrilla was introduced to America in the 1950s by someone who discarded a used aquarium containing the plant in waters near Tampa Bay, Florida. It is now one of the most invasive marine plant species in the Western hemisphere and notoriously difficult to manage, much less eradicate.

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