There is often a dense mat of Fennel Pondweed, stoneworts, and ditch grasses in the water of the lake.

Common submerged aquatic vegetation includes eelgrass and widgeon grass.

Widgeon grass (Ruppia maritima) - marsh minnow deepwater pool Pools on the high salt marsh that are semi-permanently and permanently flooded.

Aquatic vegetation commonly seen within the lake itself include widgeon grass (Ruppia maritima), filamentous green algae (Enteromorpha and Cladophora sp.)

A family of river otters also makes frequent use of the lagoon, and includes brown pelicans in their summer diet The lagoon is ringed by emergent aquatic vegetation, such as willows and cattail, and has submerged aquatic vegetation like sago pondweed and widgeon grass in the shallow areas.

"When the gnats weren't bad I had sometimes accompanied him, sat in the waist-high widgeon grass beside him, the place pink with coneflowers, telling him the plot of, say, a Sam Peckinpah movie I'd never seen but had read about once in a syndicated article in The Dellacrosse Sunday Star.

The sea grass Ruppia Megacarpa is found in the estuary.

Aquatic plants in the shallow waters of the gulf include Ruppia and spiny naiad.

Their concept of the family includes the plants sometimes treated in the separate family Zannichelliaceae, but excludes the genus Ruppia.

Ber die Embryologie von Ruppia rostellatae Koch.

Adult beetles are grazing on the leaves of pondweed (Potamogeton) and Ruppia (Ruppiaceae).

The perennial wetland is characterized by scant aquatic vegetation, dominated by Ruppia, Potamogeton and Enteromorpha.

The generic name Ruppia was dedicated by Linnaeus to the German botanist Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius (1689-1719) and the specific name (maritima) translates to "of the sea".

Other plants such as the Dwarf Palmetto and Wax Myrtle and submerged aquatic plants such as Vallisneria and Ruppia are native to Louisiana wetlands.

The most abundant plant was the eelgrass, including Zostera marina, Zostera angustifolia and Zostera noltei and some other salt tolerant aquatic plants like Ruppia and Potamogeton.