Taxon: Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

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:

ALª, ARª, AZª°, MAª, NCª, OKª, SCª, TXª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• anchored water-hyacinth   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• aguapé   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aguapé-de-canudo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aguapé-de-cordão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jacinto-d'água   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• rainha-dos-lagos   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

References:

• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires. (F BuenAir)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
• Kahn, F. et al. 1993. Las plantas vasculares en las aguas continentales del Peru. IFEA, Lima, Peru. (Aquat Peru)
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Spichiger, R., ed. 1985–. Flora del Paraguay. (F Parag)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eichhornia azurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eichhornia azurea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316411 (09 February 2010)

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