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Cabomba caroliniana (Carolina fanwort; Carolina water-shield; Fanwort; Fish-grass; Washington-grass; Washington-plant)

Synonyms:
Language: Portuguese

Wikipedia Abstract

Cabomba caroliniana is an aquatic perennial herbaceous plant native to North and South America. It is a weed of national significance in Australia and on the list of invasive alien species of union concern in the EU.
View Wikipedia Record: Cabomba caroliniana

Infraspecies

Cabomba caroliniana var. caroliniana
Cabomba caroliniana var. flavida
Cabomba caroliniana var. pulcherrima

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Cabomba caroliniana

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Indeterminate
Drought Tolerance [1]  None
Frost Free Days [1]  4 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Low
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Multiple Stem
Growth Period [1]  Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Slow
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Seeds Per [1]  499999 / lb (1102310 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Prostrate
Structure [2]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Flower Color [1]  White
Foliage Color [1]  Gray-Green
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Water Use [1]  High

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central & Western Europe Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    
Eastern Coastal Australia Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Gulf Island National Seashore II 67487 Florida, Mississippi, United States
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge VI 28351 Louisiana, United States
Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site   New York, United States      
South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 20317 South Carolina, United States  

Predators

Feltia jaculifera (Dingy cutworm)[3]
Pseudemys texana (Texas River Cooter)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Food Habits and Selective Foraging by the Texas River Cooter (Pseudemys texana) in Spring Lake, Hays County, Texas, JACQUELINE R. FIELDS, THOMAS R. SIMPSON, RICHARD W. MANNING, AND FRANCIS L. ROSE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 726–729, 2003
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0