PlantFiles: African Elodea, Oxygen Weed, Curly Water Thyme, Curly Waterweed
Lagarosiphon major

African elodea is one of those plants that will cost the U.S. property owners millions of dollars to control once it is released into nature. You listing of this plant should carry stong disclaimer statements or you should not list it at all. As you have it listed you seem to be encouraging people to try to grow it. After 32 years of battling aquatic weeds in the U.S. , I wonder why your organization has not been served with a regulatory agency warning or fine.

African Elodea, Oxygen Weed, Curly Water Thyme, Curly Waterweed Lagarosiphon major is naturalized in Texas and other States is considered an invasive noxious plant and is prohibited in Texas.

U. S. FEDERALLY LISTED NOXIOUS WEED.
Not allowed for import to the US and not allowed in any interstate or intrastate transportation without a specific permit from USDA APHIS PPQ (Plant Protection and Quarantine).