OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinodorus cordifolius   FAMILY Alismataceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius   FAMILY Alismataceae

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

Echinodorus cordifolius

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Echinodorus radicans

 

COMMON NAME:
Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain


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image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ecco3_001_lvd

        

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ecra2_001_lvd

        

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmecordifolius_moultrie

May    Berkeley County    SC

Lake Moultrie

Leaves multimorphic, plants with differently shaped emersed, submersed, or floating leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

Dan Whitten    sdw_echinodorus2

May    Georgetown County    SC

Flower scapes at maturity arching & rooting down (vs. E. berteroi & grandiflorus rigidly erect), per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

Dan Whitten    sdw_echinodorus3

May    Georgetown County    SC

Flowers 1" w 3 spreading rounded petals, 3 sepals, & a central compound ovary ringed by stamens, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

Dan Whitten    sdw_ecordifolius

May    Georgetown County    SC

Basal leaves with long petioles & heart-shaped blades 1.2-6" wide, 2-8" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

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 (Carman, 2005).

image of Echinodorus cordifolius, Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmecordifolius_2

Month Unknown        

Leaves clustered, erect and rising above water surface on long, 3-sided petioles, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinodorus cordifolius   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius   FAMILY Alismataceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Echinodorus radicans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2214

Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, ditches, wet thickets, especially on base-rich substrates, such as over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
3-merous
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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