You won't find much water hyacinth growing native in North Carolina, a tender tropical aquatic plant such as that is more or less exterminated by Winter freezes often in the teens.

With sub zero ice freezes lasting several days a freeze typically of an inch to four inches thick on a pond can be relied on to destroy tender plants such as that

Regards, andy
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