Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla filiculoides
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla filiculoides
FAMILY
Azollaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla filiculoides
INCLUDED WITHIN Taxonomy of the American Azolla species (Azollaceae) (Evrard & Van Hove, 2004)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)
Azolla filiculoides
COMMON NAME:
Large Mosquito-fern
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla filiculoides
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla filiculoides
FAMILY
Azollaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla filiculoides
INCLUDED WITHIN
Taxonomy of the American Azolla species (Azollaceae) (Evrard & Van Hove, 2004)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Azolla filiculoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Azolla filiculoides
3568
Fern/Fern ally; Floating aquatic (the roots floating)
Annual
Habitat: Freshwater lakes, beaver ponds, artificial impoundments, per Weakley's Flora
Native: western US, Mexico, Central & South America, east Asia
Reported for one site in eastern Georgia
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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 the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p176
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p112
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