Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Azollaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Azolla cristata
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla microphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla caroliniana
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 caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)
Azolla caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 015-01-001:
Azolla caroliniana FAMILY Azollaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Azolla caroliniana
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Mosquito-fern, Eastern Mosquito-fern, Water Fern
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_azca_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm160914_152
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
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JK Marlow jkm160914_159
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
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Keith Bradley kab_a_caroliniana_75355
September Miami-Dade County FL
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Keith Bradley kab_a_caroliniana_75355b
September Miami-Dade County FL
Plants dark red to green, free-floating, ca. 1cm wide, often in dense mats, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
aquatic plants
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JK Marlow jkm101120_256
November Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Azollaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Azolla cristata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Azolla microphylla
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Azolla caroliniana
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 caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Azolla caroliniana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 015-01-001:
Azolla caroliniana
FAMILY
Azollaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Azolla caroliniana
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Fern/Fern ally; Floating aquatic (the roots floating)
Annual
Habitat: Stagnant waters of interdune ponds, limesink ponds, old millponds, beaver ponds, floodplain sloughs, often locally abundant, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Irregularly compound (tiny), lobulate and irregular in outline
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama (Lovell, 2007) p61
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p174
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p112
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p301
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p334
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p480
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America p090
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