Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Learn more about Carolina Mosquito-fern from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Azollaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla microphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla caroliniana
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
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern
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_azca_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160914_152
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
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JK Marlow jkm160914_159
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
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Keith Bradley kab_a_caroliniana_75355
September Miami-Dade County FL
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Keith Bradley kab_a_caroliniana_75355b
September Miami-Dade County FL
Plants dark red to green, free-floating, ca. 1cm wide, often in dense mats, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
aquatic plants
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JK Marlow jkm101120_256
November Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Azollaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla microphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla caroliniana
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
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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
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:
Irregularly compound (tiny), lobulate and irregular in outline
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