OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salvinia minima   FAMILY Salviniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvinia minima   FAMILY Salviniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)

Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Salvinia auriculata

 

COMMON NAME:
Water Spangles, Floating Fern


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image of Salvinia minima, Water Spangles, Floating Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160914_136b

September        

SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop

Hairs of upper leaf surface w 4 free, spreading branches [not joined at tips], per Weakley's Flora.


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image of Salvinia minima, Water Spangles, Floating Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160914_136c

September        

SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop

Leaves entire, about 1cm in diameter, round or oval with a cordate base, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).


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image of Salvinia minima, Water Spangles, Floating Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160914_137

September        

SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop

Half the size of Giant Salvinias (S. molesta, biloba, herzogii, auriculata), per New Invaders of the Southeast (Rawlins et al., 2018).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salvinia minima   FAMILY Salviniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvinia minima   FAMILY Salviniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Salvinia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Salvinia auriculata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4044

Fern/Fern ally; Floating aquatic (rootless)
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Quiet waters, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Neotropics

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Two simple, floating emergent leaves; & a third, divided underwater leaf
Whorls of 3

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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