OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Trapaceae, Water Chestnut family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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Common Name: European Water-chestnut, Water-caltrop, Four-spined Water-chestnut

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Trapa natans   FAMILY: Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Trapa natans   FAMILY: Trapaceae

 

Habitat: Farm ponds and other stagnant or slow-moving water

Non-native: Eurasia & Africa

 


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"The chestnut blight is of Asian origin and was transported to the Northeast in 1876 on Castanea crenata, resistant Japanese chestnut trees for ornamental trade.... Within 50 years, Castanea dentata, the dominant upland forest tree species from Maine to Mississippi... was functionally eliminated from the eastern deciduous forest ecosystem." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home