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Kōrero: Water quality

Hornwort

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Hornwort

New Zealand’s worst water weed, hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum), can smother other weeds and completely cover the surface of streams.

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Greater Wellington Regional Council

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Problem plants and microbes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15527/hornwort (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Kit Rutherford, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.