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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
FAMILY
Hydroleaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Waterpod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-01-001:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama quadrivalve
COMMON NAME:
Waterpod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_naqu_001_lvd
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John B. Nelson jbn_2663197431_ffa7498787
July Dorchester County SC
Flowers borne from leaf axils, some of which bear sharp spines, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
COMPARE
aquatic plants
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
FAMILY
Hydroleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-01-001:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama quadrivalve
3094
Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Habitat: swamp forests, backwater sloughs, especially in cypress-gum forests, marshes, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Axillary spines sometimes present
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 included stamens, fused to corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blue/Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p058
- Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama (Lovell, 2007) p15
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p423
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p104
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p077
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p291
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