\u00a0\u00a0 The above\u00a0table lists several non-grass weed plants with seeds–arranged with the most valuable at the top.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that many of the weeds that are most valuable to wildlife are some of the most troublesome weeds.\u00a0 I often wonder if the weeds that pop up in my garden have been transported there by some wild creature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many wetland plants are important food sources for wildlife.\u00a0 If you are lucky enough to have a pond or other water feature\/wetland in your landscape, you may want to include some of these plants.\u00a0 The plants listed in\u00a0the following table\u00a0include not only those with seeds that are eaten but plants that have foliage or tubers eaten as well.\u00a0 Wetland areas are very important to fish, amphibians, waterbirds, and several species of invertebrates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

High wildlife value wetland plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Pondweeds<\/span><\/td>\n	Potamogeton sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bulrushes<\/span><\/td>\n	Scirpus sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smartweeds<\/span><\/td>\n	Polygonum sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
algae<\/span><\/td>\n	\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Widgeongrass<\/span><\/td>\n	Ruppia maritima<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sedges<\/span><\/td>\n	Carex sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
spikerushes<\/span><\/td>\n	Eleocharis sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wild rice<\/span><\/td>\n	Zizania aquatica<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wild millets<\/span><\/td>\n	Echinochloa sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cordgrasses<\/span><\/td>\n	Spartina sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
naiads<\/span><\/td>\n	Najas sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wild celery<\/span><\/td>\n	Vallisneria spiralis<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
duckweeds<\/span><\/td>\n	Several genera<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saltgrasses<\/span><\/td>\n	Distichlis sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horned pond weed<\/span><\/td>\n	Zannichellia palustris<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burreeds<\/span><\/td>\n	Sparganium sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
waterlilies<\/span><\/td>\n	Nymphaea<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
arrowheads<\/span><\/td>\n	Sagittaria sp.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"   \u00a0\u00a0 Two of the top wildlife plants are oaks and pines.\u00a0 These trees produce large, nutritious seeds.\u00a0 It may seem strange that a tree could sacrifice so many of its seeds and still reproduce.\u00a0 But by strategically producing bumper crops in some years and very little in others, the trees provide an erratic food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/habitathorticulturepnw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}