Does Water Hycathin root?

[Louie]

It wasnt water lettuce though thought could have been it was this-
http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/lakesampson.jpg

however they were so close together so many of them and many few inches above the water that I thought it was water hycathin .
The fact that they were actually rooted and never moved regardless of water depth or current made me think it wasnt but thought might be huge clumps of it caught in fallen trees but after getting some looked it up and just regular lilies .

Some of the leaves extended some distance out of the water

I have now what I was looking for in the pond and used fluke tabs while quarantined them .

Thanks

 

[Louie]

i'm guessing Hycathin is mispelled for hyacinth...
you show that you're from miami... aren't those plants highly illegal in your state???

lol yes I mispelled it

 

[Muske]

The leaves on some tropical lilies will extend out of the water. Also, really dense lilies will have the appearance of lettuce/hyacinth from a distance. The pic. you have looks like a regular native white lily.