OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myriophyllum sibiricum   FAMILY Haloragaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myriophyllum sibiricum   FAMILY Haloragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Myriophyllum sibiricum

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Myriophyllum exalbescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Common Water-milfoil


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image of Myriophyllum sibiricum, Common Water-milfoil

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_273

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myriophyllum sibiricum   FAMILY Haloragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myriophyllum sibiricum   FAMILY Haloragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Myriophyllum sibiricum

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Myriophyllum exalbescens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4042

Submersed aquatic w flowers & fruit above the surface (roots not always present); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Quiet circumneutral to alkaline waters, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Leaves well-developed: pinnately divided with filiform segments
Submersed leaves whorled. Bracts of emersed shoots different than submersed lvs

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink
4 sepals?
4 petals?
Inferior ovary

Flowers in spikes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall?

 

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