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Myriophyllum hippuroides (western watermilfoil)

Synonyms: Myriophyllum scabratum (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Myriophyllum hippuroides is a species of water milfoil known by the common name western watermilfoil. It is native to the west coast of North America, where it grows in aquatic habitat such as ponds and streams. It generally grows over a meter long, with its stem lined with whorls of fleshy green leaves divided into many narrow lobes. The leafy inflorescence is a spike of small flowers up to 12 centimeters long which grows above the water's surface.
View Wikipedia Record: Myriophyllum hippuroides

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Baltic Drainages Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden Palearctic Polar Freshwaters    

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
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