Water Lettuce
(Pistia stratioties)
Description
Plants consist of distinct rossette** of light yellow-green leaves approximately 4 - 8 inches long. Tuft of long unbranched, fibrous roots extending into water from fleshy rhizome. Leaves have define veins radiating from leaf base toward leaf margin. Commonly found in quiet water areas in Florida as well as isolated areas in other gulf coast states.
** Rosette: a dense basal cluster of leaves arranged in circular fashion like the leaves of the common dandelion.
Suggested Treatments
| Cutrine-Plus & Reward Tank Mix | Mix one part Cutrine-Plus to 2 parts Reward, apply at the rate of one gallon of mix per surface acre, dilute with water to provide coverage and add 1/4 oz Cide Kick per gallon of solution. Spray evenly over foliage. |
| Reward | Use 3/4 gallon of Reward per surface acre, dilute with water to provide coverage and add 1/4 oz Cide Kick per gallon of solution. |
Use restriciton of treated water with Cutrine Plus & Reward Tank Mix
| Drinking | Swimming | Irrigation | Fishing |
| 3 days | None | 3 days | None |
Use restriction of treated water with Reward
| Drinking | Swimming | Irrigation | Fishing |
| 3 days | None | 3 days | None |
