Taxon: Stratiotes aloides L.

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*, FLª, MNª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• water-aloe   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• water-soldier   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (for ponds fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ FWeed)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania; Turkey - Istanbul
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

References:

• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
• Cook, C. D. K. 1990. Aquatic plant book. (Aquat PlBook) [mentions].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Reed, C. F. 1977. Economically important foreign weeds: potential problems in the United States. (Econ FWeed)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Stratiotes aloides.

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

Check other databases for Stratiotes aloides L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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?316418 (09 February 2010)

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