The family of flowering aquatic plants that includes elodea and other freshwater waterweeds.
Scientific family name derived from Elodea (the genus) plus -aceae, the Latin suffix used in taxonomy to denote plant families.
The Elodaceae family is remarkable because these plants evolved underwater in a very different way than most flowering plants—they completely ditched wind pollination and adapted to be pollinated by water instead.
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