Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Echinodorus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
INCLUDING
Flora of North America
Echinodorus cordifolius ssp. cordifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-02-001:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
COMMON NAME:
Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecco3_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmecordifolius_moultrie
May Berkeley County SC
Lake Moultrie
Flower scapes arching and rooting down at maturity, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdme_cordifolius
Month Unknown
Flowers on slender 1" pedicels, in whorls of 5-15 at widely-spaced nodes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmecordifolius_2
Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
INCLUDING
Flora of North America
Echinodorus cordifolius ssp. cordifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-02-001:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
2214
Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in swamps, ditches, wet thickets, esp on base-rich substrates, such as over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
3-merous
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama p12
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p333
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p096
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p335
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p387