Taxon: Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth

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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*°, INª, 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
  
• rooted water-hyacinth   (Source: Noxious Weed List-AL) – 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)
  
• azurblå vattenhyacint   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

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

References:

• (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Kahn, F. et al. 1993. Las plantas vasculares en las aguas continentales del Peru. IFEA, Lima, Peru.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Spichiger, R., ed. 1985–. Flora del Paraguay.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Eichhornia azurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eichhornia azurea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eichhornia azurea.

Check other web resources for Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.

Images:

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

More:

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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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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