OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Salviniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Azollaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Azolla cristata

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. 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 Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Azolla caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)

Azolla caroliniana

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

Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Azollaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)

Azolla caroliniana

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern


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image of Azolla caroliniana, Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_azca_001_lvd

        

image of Azolla caroliniana, Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern

JK Marlow    jkm160914_152

September        

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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

image of Azolla caroliniana, Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern

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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Azolla caroliniana, Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern

JK Marlow    jkm101120_256

November    Greenville County    SC

Lake Conestee Nature Park

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Salviniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana   FAMILY Azollaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Azolla cristata

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. 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 Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Azolla caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Azolla caroliniana

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Azolla caroliniana

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2984

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

Habitat: Stagnant waters of interdune ponds, limesink ponds, old millponds, beaver ponds, floodplain sloughs, often locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

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LEAVES:
Irregularly compound (tiny), lobulate and irregular in outline

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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