Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
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Learn more about Echinodorus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinodorus cordifolius
INCLUDING Flora of North America
Echinodorus cordifolius ssp. cordifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-02-001:
Echinodorus cordifolius FAMILY Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Echinodorus radicans
COMMON NAME:
Creeping Burhead, Creeping Water-plantain
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecco3_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ecra2_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmecordifolius_moultrie
May Berkeley County SC
Lake Moultrie
Leaves multimorphic, plants with differently shaped emersed, submersed, or floating leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Dan Whitten sdw_echinodorus2
May Georgetown County SC
Flower scapes at maturity arching & rooting down (vs. E. berteroi & grandiflorus rigidly erect), per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Dan Whitten sdw_echinodorus3
May Georgetown County SC
Flowers 1" w 3 spreading rounded petals, 3 sepals, & a central compound ovary ringed by stamens, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Dan Whitten sdw_ecordifolius
May Georgetown County SC
Basal leaves with long petioles & heart-shaped blades 1.2-6" wide, 2-8" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdme_cordifolius
Month Unknown
Flowers on slender 1" pedicels, in whorls of 5-15 at widely-spaced nodes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmecordifolius_2
Month Unknown
Leaves clustered, erect and rising above water surface on long, 3-sided petioles, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinodorus cordifolius
INCLUDING
Flora of North America
Echinodorus cordifolius ssp. cordifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 027-02-001:
Echinodorus cordifolius
FAMILY
Alismataceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Echinodorus radicans
2214
Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Habitat: swamps, ditches, wet thickets, especially on base-rich substrates, such as over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
3-merous
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama (Lovell, 2007) p12
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p333
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p477
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p096
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p359
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p335
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p387
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