African plants?

Question

Does anyone know any African plants that live in or near freshwater springs? It's for a school project.

Answer 1

To start:

Cyperus textilis -common name mat sedge

Cyperus papyrus L.  - common name papyrus

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Answer 2

A special vegetation called sudd (literally meaning “barrier”) occurs in the great Nile, Niger, and Zambezi drainage systems of the African interior plateau.

Characteristic is the sudd along the White Nile River in The Sudan and Uganda. Sedges (especially papyrus), reeds, and other water plants, including the floating Nile cabbage (Pistia stratiotes).

Nymphoides indica

This is a pretty, fast-growing, perennial water plant.   It occurs naturally in tropical Africa.

African Water Fern  (Lomariopsidaceae ). A background plant that can be used to decorate wood and rocks. ...