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Taxon: Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle

Genus: Hydrilla
Family: Hydrocharitaceae subfamily: Hydrilloideae.
Nomen number: 316414
Place of publication: Ill. bot. Himal. Mts. 1(10):376. 1839
Name verified on: 23-Dec-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-Dec-2000
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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, AZª°, CAª, COª, CTª, FLª, MAª, MEª, MNª, MSª, NCª, NHª, NMª, NVª, OKª, ORª, PRª, SCª, TXª, VTª, WAª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

Common names:

  • Florida-elodea   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  • hydrilla   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • water-thyme   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  • Wasserquirl   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • worldwide weed, naturalized in Europe, Africa, New Zealand, United States, Mexico, tropical Southern America, Canary Islands, Mascarenes, Madagascar, Micronesia, Melanesia, & Polynesia, probably native in s. Asia

References:

  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
  • Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
  • Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Haynes, R. R. & L. B. Holm-Nielsen. 1985. Acta Amazon. suppl. 15:170.
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Langeland, K. A. 1996. Castanea 61:293–304.
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Check other databases for Hydrilla verticillata (L. f.) Royle:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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