Taxon: Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.

• authorship verified from original literature
• Roemer & Schultes coauthored volume 5 up through Phyteuma (p. 88)

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• drymaria   (Source: R. Rabeler, p.c.) – English
  
• tropical chickweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• West Indian chickweed   (Source: F CFla ) – English
  
• mourron blanc   (Source: F LAnt ) – French (Lesser Antilles)
  
• petit mourron   (Source: L WEst Indies) – French (Lesser Antilles)
  
• cordão-de-sapo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• erva-de-estrela   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jaboticaá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• mastruço-do-brejo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• matemaco   (Source: L West Indies ) – Spanish (Cuba)
  
• yerba de estrella   (Source: L West Indies ) – Spanish (Puerto Rico)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide R. K. Rabeler, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Galapagos Islands; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Catamarca, Cordoba, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman; Chile; Paraguay - Central, Guaira, Paraguari; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Guinea; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Mauritius; Mayotte; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
  Indo-China: Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. Thomas

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka

References:

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• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
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• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
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• Duke, J. A. 1961. Preliminary revision of the genus Drymaria. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 48:251–253.
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• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
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• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
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• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Drymaria cordata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Drymaria cordata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Drymaria cordata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Drymaria cordata subsp. diandra (Blume) J. A. Duke
  
• (=) Drymaria diandra Blume
  
• (≡) Holosteum cordatum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Schult.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit and seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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