Every field
Click any heading to sort. Click it again to reverse it, and once more to go back to the order the file was written in.
Plants with no published figure for the column you sorted on always sink to the bottom, in both directions, because a missing figure is not a small figure. The table scrolls sideways and the plant name stays legible. On a phone this is a wide table and it is meant to be: the alternative is hiding columns, and hiding columns is what this page exists not to do. Under each row sits the warning, the propagation method, the note and the sources for that row.
A zero in the wild column means nobody uploaded a record, not that the plant is absent. Arrowhead is the worked example. GBIF holds no records for the genus in Armenia1, and Barseghyan records two Sagittaria species from bogs, lake banks and rice paddies at Sarvanlar, Nejirlu, Zangilar, Stepanavan and Kalinino between 850 and 1400 meters2. A herbarium checklist compiled by a specialist who walked the ground beats an absent database row, so that plant is recorded as native with the occurrence count left empty. The reverse trap is in the same file: Barseghyan names Vallisneria spiralis in a passage listing what the Colchis and Talysh wetlands have and Armenia does not, and reading that as an Armenian record would be exactly the kind of mistake this hub exists to avoid.
How to read it
Five columns carry more weight than the rest.
The band and its floor in micromoles per square meter per second at the substrate. Low is 15 to 30, medium 30 to 60, high 60 to 120 or more5. Those bands are hobby convention and no measurement study behind them could be found, so the number is a floor to compare your own reading against, not a specification.
Roots, leaves, or both. Epiphytes, floaters, mosses and stem plants feed from the water column, and root tabs are for swords, crypts, Vallisneria and bulb plants5. Measured for carbon in five species: 98 percent of photosynthesis from roots in an isoetid, 75 in Vallisneria americana, 28 in Ludwigia repens, and zero in Hydrocotyle6.
Derived, not published. All districts means the plant's own pH and hardness ranges cover the whole of measured Yerevan tap, GH 2.9 to 10.9 and pH 6.0 to 7.39. Some districts means it overlaps but does not cover, so test your own water. Yerevan tap is not one water and a plant that suits Davtashen may not suit Nork.
The georeferenced occurrence count for country code AM, read from GBIF on 9 September 20261. A plant that grows wild here has already proved it survives an Armenian winter and an Armenian summer, and no datasheet is stronger evidence than that. It says nothing about whether you may collect it.
An invasive warning is not a comment on how fast the plant grows in your tank. It means the plant is on the EU list of invasive alien species of Union concern7, or on the Armenian Red Book with a per-specimen tariff attached, or a documented invader somewhere that matters. Open the row and read the warning.
Six rows you should not treat as a shopping list
Everything a person would want to take from a wild Armenian pond is protected. Everything that is not protected is a pondweed or a sedge.
The Red Book of Plants of Armenia was approved by Government Decision N 72-N of 29 January 2010 and registers 675 plant species3. The per-specimen compensation tariffs come from law HO-88-N, and run 25,000 AMD for Salvinia natans and Nuphar lutea, 15,000 for Nymphaea alba and Utricularia intermedia, and 10,000 for Menyanthes trifoliata, Najas minor and Iris sibirica. Selling, buying, exchanging, exporting or importing an illegally collected Red Book plant is charged at five times the tariff4.
The lawful routes are on the tool page, under where to buy10
- GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Occurrence search. Every Armenian occurrence count in the wild column, read for country code AM on 9 September 2026. GBIF records presence, not absence. gbif.org
- Барсегян, А. М. (1981). Водно-болотная флора Армении и ее анализ. Barseghyan, A. M., The aquatic and wetland flora of Armenia and its analysis. Takhtajania 8: 53 to 120, Yerevan. 755 species of higher plants, of which 620 vascular in 240 genera and 82 families, plus 103 mosses, 32 liverworts and 5 charophytes. The conspectus on pages 72 to 113 gives habitat, district, locality and altitude for every species, and it is the source for every native record here that GBIF does not carry. Open access, scanned, no text layer. arar.sci.am
- Red Book of Plants of the Republic of Armenia. Government Decision N 72-N of 29 January 2010. 452 plant species and 40 fungi described, 675 plant species registered across six categories.
- RA Law HO-88-N, on tariffs for compensation of damage caused to fauna and flora as a result of environmental offences. Adopted 3 May 2005, current consolidated Armenian text. Article 5 for the tariffs, Article 6(8) for the five times multiplier. arlis.am
- Aquatic plant nutrition and light reference. Root tabs and the plant groups they are for; bicarbonate use in half of 80 tested species; the light bands of 15 to 30, 30 to 60 and 60 to 120 or more, published there with the explicit note that they are convention rather than measurement.
- Winkel, A. and Borum, J. (2009). Use of sediment CO2 by submersed rooted plants. Annals of Botany. Five species in split chambers, four of them commercial aquarium nursery stock. The root contribution percentages, the shoot-to-root area ratios, and the ceilings showing that root-supplied photosynthesis is below leaf-supplied photosynthesis in every species tested. Read through parts 3 and 4.
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1141, consolidated text of 2 August 2022. The list of invasive alien species of Union concern, read directly. Armenia is not in the EU so it does not bind anyone here, and it is still the best published expert judgement available. eur-lex.europa.eu
- Gazanik, Arshakunyats 54/49, Yerevan. Live product data, 9 September 2026. The buyable column and every price in it, from the shop's own published catalogue: 77 products in the plants category by the store index, 159 published plant lines in the full product list, and zero results for every floating plant searched. gazanik.am
- Shahinyan, H. V. (2005). On the hydrogeochemical characteristics of some drinking waters supplying the city of Yerevan. Proceedings of NAS RA, Earth Sciences LVIII(1), 41 to 45. The GH 2.9 to 10.9 and pH 6.0 to 7.3 behind the derived Yerevan tap column. arar.sci.am PDF
- Aquatic plants in Armenia reference. The hardy plant tables, the overwintering and aggression columns, the GBIF method, the Gazanik audit, and Barseghyan's two papers read and summarised.
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