OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



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

 

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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

 

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