NameThatPlant.net: Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda

Lycophytes: Isoetales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda FAMILY Isoetaceae Go to FSUS key

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INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Isoetes melanopoda FAMILY Isoetaceae

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

Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Isoetes melanopoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)

Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Georgia Quillworts (Musselman, 2001)

Isoetes melanopoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Isoetes melanopoda

COMMON NAME:
Blackfoot Quillwort

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image of Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda, Blackfoot Quillwort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_isme_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda FAMILY Isoetaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Isoetes melanopoda FAMILY Isoetaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Isoetes melanopoda

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Isoetes melanopoda ssp. melanopoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Georgia Quillworts (Musselman, 2001)
Isoetes melanopoda

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Isoetes melanopoda

3773

Fern/Fern ally
Perennial

Habitat: floodplains, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Leaves whorled, at least at maturity

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall

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