FLORIDA AQUATIC PEST CONTROL (ACTUAL
2025/2026) EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
What are the three families of monocots? - ----CORRECT
ANSWER ✓ ✓ --- Grasses, sedges and rushes
Grasses - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have hallow, cylindrical
stems with swollen joints (nodes) at intervals and leaves that
arise at the nodes in two ranks
Sedges - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have solid stems, often
triangular, and leaves in three ranks
Rushes - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have solid round stems
and flowers that have two rings of small, brown scale-like
structures similar to petals
What are the aquatic plant growth habits? - ----CORRECT
ANSWER ✓ ✓ --- Submersed plants, immersed plants, floating
plants and floating leaf plants
,Water fern ( Salvinia minima) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---
Nonnative floating plant with paired rounded fronds that have
stiff, branched hairs on the upper surface, 3/4 in acrss and thin
root-like fronds hang beneath
Giant water fern ( Salvinia molesta) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
--- Nonnative floating plant with thin root-like fronds that hang
beneath the water , hairs on the upper leaf surfaces are fused at
the top compared to being spread open on water fern
Mosquito fern ( Azolla caroliniana) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
---native small flowering plant composed of tiny, closely
overlapping fronds , may be green, brownish-red or red, entire
plant is less than 1/2 inch across and roots hang beneath
Torpedograss ( Panicum repens) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ --
-invasive emersed, perennial grass, grows extensive rhizomes,
leaves rolled and have fine hairs on upper surface, ring of fine
hairs at the base of leaf, seedheads are branched sharply
upwards and flowers are attached individually along branches,
inflorescense open
Maidencane ( Panicum hemitomon) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓
✓ ---native emersed perennial grass forms extensive rhizomes,
, submersed joints of rhizomes produce feathery roots, leaves
flat, wide and smooth, seedheads narrow, spike-like branches
pressed upwards along central stalk creating tightly enclosed
inflorescence
Paragrass ( Urochloa mutica) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---
Invasive forms stems recline and root at the nodes , leaves are
flat and have very fine hairs on upper leaf surface, presence of
dense hairs at nodes and stiff hairs along collar where leaf
sheath joins leaf blades
Southern watergrass ( Luzioloa fluitans) - ----CORRECT ANSWER
✓ ✓ --- Native floating on water surface or emersed , up to 1 ft
tall, on shorelines and moist soils, leaf blades thin and flat , flap
of thin white tissue 1/6in long at top of leaf sheath
Southern bulrush, giant bulrush ( Schoenoplectus californicus)
- ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---native emersed, leafless,
spongy, rounded, 3-angled stems 3-10 ft tall arise from thick
runners, flower cluster occurs at tend of stem 1/2-3 inch, bristles
occur on softstem bulrush
Slender spikerush or road-grass ( Eleocharis baldwinii) - ----
CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---native has two growth forms, occurs
on moist soils at edge of ponds, erect and leafless stems 1-4 in
2025/2026) EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
What are the three families of monocots? - ----CORRECT
ANSWER ✓ ✓ --- Grasses, sedges and rushes
Grasses - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have hallow, cylindrical
stems with swollen joints (nodes) at intervals and leaves that
arise at the nodes in two ranks
Sedges - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have solid stems, often
triangular, and leaves in three ranks
Rushes - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---Have solid round stems
and flowers that have two rings of small, brown scale-like
structures similar to petals
What are the aquatic plant growth habits? - ----CORRECT
ANSWER ✓ ✓ --- Submersed plants, immersed plants, floating
plants and floating leaf plants
,Water fern ( Salvinia minima) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---
Nonnative floating plant with paired rounded fronds that have
stiff, branched hairs on the upper surface, 3/4 in acrss and thin
root-like fronds hang beneath
Giant water fern ( Salvinia molesta) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
--- Nonnative floating plant with thin root-like fronds that hang
beneath the water , hairs on the upper leaf surfaces are fused at
the top compared to being spread open on water fern
Mosquito fern ( Azolla caroliniana) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓
---native small flowering plant composed of tiny, closely
overlapping fronds , may be green, brownish-red or red, entire
plant is less than 1/2 inch across and roots hang beneath
Torpedograss ( Panicum repens) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ --
-invasive emersed, perennial grass, grows extensive rhizomes,
leaves rolled and have fine hairs on upper surface, ring of fine
hairs at the base of leaf, seedheads are branched sharply
upwards and flowers are attached individually along branches,
inflorescense open
Maidencane ( Panicum hemitomon) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓
✓ ---native emersed perennial grass forms extensive rhizomes,
, submersed joints of rhizomes produce feathery roots, leaves
flat, wide and smooth, seedheads narrow, spike-like branches
pressed upwards along central stalk creating tightly enclosed
inflorescence
Paragrass ( Urochloa mutica) - ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---
Invasive forms stems recline and root at the nodes , leaves are
flat and have very fine hairs on upper leaf surface, presence of
dense hairs at nodes and stiff hairs along collar where leaf
sheath joins leaf blades
Southern watergrass ( Luzioloa fluitans) - ----CORRECT ANSWER
✓ ✓ --- Native floating on water surface or emersed , up to 1 ft
tall, on shorelines and moist soils, leaf blades thin and flat , flap
of thin white tissue 1/6in long at top of leaf sheath
Southern bulrush, giant bulrush ( Schoenoplectus californicus)
- ----CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---native emersed, leafless,
spongy, rounded, 3-angled stems 3-10 ft tall arise from thick
runners, flower cluster occurs at tend of stem 1/2-3 inch, bristles
occur on softstem bulrush
Slender spikerush or road-grass ( Eleocharis baldwinii) - ----
CORRECT ANSWER ✓ ✓ ---native has two growth forms, occurs
on moist soils at edge of ponds, erect and leafless stems 1-4 in
