2984

Fern/Fern ally; Floating aquatic (the roots floating)
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon elsewhere, but oft locally abundant

Look for it in stagnant waters of interdune ponds, limesink ponds, old millponds, beaver ponds, floodplain sloughs, often locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

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Aquatic

LEAVES:
Simple - tiny

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama p61
• Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia p174
• The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas p112
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p334
• Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p090

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Salviniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Azollaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Taxonomy of the American Azolla species (Azollaceae) (Evrard & Van Hove, 2004)
Azolla filiculoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 015-01-001:
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Azollaceae