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Aquatic vascular plants come from both the monocot and dicot families and there are also a number of aquatic ferns. Seaweeds are not vascular plants, they are multicellular marine algae.
Many species of aquatic plant are invasive species in different parts of the world, aquatic plants make particularly good weeds besuase they can reproduce vegetatively from fragments.
Cook, C.D.K. (ed). 1974. Water Plants of the World. Dr W Junk Publishers, The Hague. ISBN: 90 6193 024 3
Aquatic plants