Okay, the football shaped one is water shield, which is related to the water lily.
Vickie, we had also gathered some spatterdock and cow lilies are just another name for spatterdock. Yesterday's load also yielded one mosquito fish that we caught while getting the water to put the plants in. I almost had a crawdad but it got away. Oh, one spatterdock plant that we got my friend had the biggest bloom that I had ever seen on one.
Today, we went to another pond/lake. We gathered more cattails for me and some more mosquito fish. I also got two surprises from this trip. One, which I was sure that I knew what it was, was banana lily, which grows like a vivip water lily but has small, five petaled, blooms. I had this plant before when I moved down here but lost it all. Yes, this is the same thing that you buy in pet stores for the aquariums. The second surprise was a little grass like plant that had white flowers. Our friend said that they seemed to open their bloom for us. We dug up five of them, three for our friend and two for us. I still haven't identified it yet.
These lakes/ponds where we got these plant have pretty low water levels. Most of the banana lilies were dug up on almost dry land. The rest of the plants were in just a few inches of water. We definitely did not leave the area bare of plants and would say that we dug a small fraction of the plants that were there.
Lastly, our friend has given me some blue flag iris. Now I need to get busy potting.