Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:

Eelgrass with long ribbonlike green leaves and curling slender stems, illustrated in watercolor pencil and watercolor.

Eel grass (Vallisneria americana), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About eel grass:
Eel grass is also referred to as tape grass (tapegrass). It is a submersed aquatic perennial plant. Eelgrass is native in the United States.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons or monocots, having one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in the seed)
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Vallisneria

More information about Eelgrass:
Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants
Submersed Plants