Eichhornia crassipes is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often a highly problematic invasive species outside its native range. Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic ...

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) has become a plant despised by boaters, fishermen and farmers. Its floating mass can gather in such quantity that it can knock down bridges in tropical storms ...

IN tropical waters, the water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, Solms., a native of South America, a freely floating or loosely attached water plant supported by its curious buoyant bladder-like ...

A new insect that will help control the invasive weed, water hyacinth, has been released ... Waterhyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a free-floating aquatic plant native to South America that ...

The water hyacinth, known by the scientific name Eichhornia crassipes, is a native of South America and considered the world’s worst aquatic plant. Though quite unclear how the weed reached ...