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Your search found 5 taxa.

flower (or pollen cone) --- sepals or bracts leaf (or frond) fruit (or sori) sortable table of key characters habitat, distribution, plant origin, and/or botanical drawing

Common Name: Brazilian Waterweed, Brazilian Egeria, "Brazilian Elodea", "Anacharis"
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Egeria densa
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Egeria densa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Egeria densa 028-01-001
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Philotria densa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952) Anacharis densa

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Common Name: Eelgrass, Water-celery, Tapegrass
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Vallisneria americana
LESS THAN PLANTS National Database: Vallisneria americana
(?) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Vallisneria americana 028-03-001

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Common Name: American Frogsbit, Spongeplant
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Limnobium spongia
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Limnobium spongia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Limnobium spongia 028-04-001
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933) Limnobium spongia

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Common Name: Hydrilla
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Hydrilla verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Hydrilla verticillata

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Common Name: European frog-bit
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) -
PLANTS National Database: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae

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