Common Water Hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes)

Map courtesy of iNaturalist — filtered to user billhubick.

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A Pickerelweed relative native to the Amazon Basin, but a dangerous invasive where present outside its native range, as here in California. I first encountered it in July 2021 at Mendota WMA, California, where it was a dominant species along the shoreline of the Fresno Slough.