OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 1 taxon in the family Sparganiaceae, Bur-reed family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: American Bur-reed

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Sparganium americanum   FAMILY: Typhaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Sparganium americanum   FAMILY: Sparganiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Sparganium americanum 020-01-001   FAMILY: Sparganiaceae

 

Habitat: Streams, marshes, ponds, pools, spring branches, often submerged

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Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The chestnut blight is of Asian origin and was transported to the Northeast in 1876 on Castanea crenata, resistant Japanese chestnut trees for ornamental trade.... Within 50 years, Castanea dentata, the dominant upland forest tree species from Maine to Mississippi... was functionally eliminated from the eastern deciduous forest ecosystem." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home