Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:

Elodea stems with whorled green leaves and a tiny white flower on a long stalk, in watercolor pencil and watercolor.

Elodea canadensis (Anacharis), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Elodea:
Elodea is an aquatic plant native to the United States. It is also referred to as Canadian or American waterweed (water weed). It is a common aquarium plant.

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: Elodea
Species: Elodea canadensis

More information about Elodea:
Wikipedia: Elodea
American waterweed

Elodea (Elodea canadensis), also called Canadian or American waterweed, is an aquatic plant native to the United States and common in aquariums. Gina painted it in watercolor pencil and watercolor for FLW Outdoors Magazine as part of an aquatic plant series. Branching stems carry small leaves in greens from pale wash to dark accent, drawn as separate shoots against a clean background.