AlligatorweedBy: Alex Bauman

Control measures

Alligator weed This plant resides

in southeastern states.

Emersed plant that can be found in a variety of places.

Alligator weed characterisics It is a flowering plant It has small tiny one

seeded fruits that have thin walls

Characterisics The leaves can be

opposite, narrowly elliptic or spatulate.

They have tiny, one seeded fruits

Source of Introduction It was first

reported in Alabama in 1897.

It is thought that they came over on the ballasts of boats.

Control Measurements

The alligator flea beetle was the first biological control for aquatic weeds.

It was established on the alligator weed in 1965.

Work Cited “Alligator weed”. Center for Aquatic and

Invasive Plats. Web. 28 Sept. 2012.

“Alligatorweed”. Invasive Species Info. Web. 2 Oct. 2012.

Cuba, James. “Alligatorweed flea beetle Agasicles hygrophila Selman

and Vogt”. ESIS. Web. 29 Sept. 2012.