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1. Azolla (Fairy Moss)
Azolla is a tiny aquatic fern with fronds measuring about 1cm. The fronds may turn red in summer. It spreads rapidly and will easily cover the entire surface of a pond with a dense green mat. Although the plant will survive the average winter, much of the growth will be cut back by ice and frost.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/azolla.php

2. Eichhornia (Water Hyacinth)
Eichhornia has dark shiny leaves with bulbous stems. Pale violet Hyacinth-like flowers appear on spikes in summer, though it will not normally flower in cool summers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/eichhornia.php

3. Floating Plants
Pictorial index of floating plants.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/

4. Floating Plants
Floating plants for the pond surface.
http://www.pondlife.me.uk/plants/floating.php

5. Hydrocharis (Frogbit)
Hydrocharis looks like a tiny water lily with leaves measuring 2-5cm. Small white flowers appear in summer.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/hydrocharis.php

6. Lemna (Duckweed)
Lemna minor is often seen covering the entire surface of a pond. Other varieties are Lemna gibba (Thick Duckweed) and Lemna polyrhiza (Greater Duckweed).
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/lemna.php

7. Pistia (Water Lettuce)
A lettuce-shaped plant with ribbed, velvety foliage and feathery roots. It needs a warm summer to do well and is killed quickly by frost.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/pistia.php

8. Salvinia (Giant Salvinia)
Salvinia is an aquatic fern with light green bristly fronds. A fast growing annual, it forms dense mats and can be very invasive.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/salvinia.php

9. Stratiotes (Water Soldier)
Stratiotes has serrated sword-like leaves and resembles a pineapple top floating on the water. The white flowers are borne in clusters on the male plant, the female plant has single flowers.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/stratiotes.php

10. Trapa (Water Chestnut)
Trapa has dark green serrated leaves on swollen stems. In warmer regions the small white flowers are followed by spiny fruits which fall to the bottom of the pond to overwinter and produce new plants in the spring.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/trapa.php

11. Utricularia (Bladderwort)
Utricularia is the largest genus of carnivorous plants consisting of over 200 species. They occur in fresh water and boggy soil on every continent except Antarctica.
http://www.pond-life.me.uk/plants/floating/utricularia.php