Grass Carp Plant Preferences

Grass carp will eat most submerged aquatic plants but generally will not eat algae, emergent plants or floating plants (except duckweed). Specific plants and grass carp preferences are listed below.

Plants Preferred by Grass Carp

Pondweeds (many Potamogeton species)
Common elodea
Coontail
Naiad
Duckweed
Muskgrass (Chara)
Water milfoil
Bladderwort
Water-stargrass

Plants Not Preferred by Grass Carp

Filamentous algae
Planktonic algae
Cattail
Bulrush
Arrowhead
Burreed
Watersheild
White waterlily
Large-leaf pondweed
Spatterdock

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