Natural Inspiration

So I've been looking into water based plants for natural inspiration and i came across a bunch of little plants that work like sea stations since they don't anchor to anything and they just float.

Heres some names:

coontail
water lettuce
water hyacinth

the other main contender is water lilies but they are anchored, they are really still interesting in the mechanism of how they float and how the different varieties create forms.

underside
high edge

im gonna do some more research and figure out how it can be translated and boiled down.