Taxon: Brasenia schreberi J. F. Gmel.

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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:

PRª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

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Common names:

• water-shield   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• water-target   (Source: Water Gardening ) – English
  
• chun cai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Schleimkraut   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• junsai   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• sunchae   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:85.) – Transcribed Korean
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Water Gardening)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Zaire [e.]
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Zambia
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Mpumalanga
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China - Anhui, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Meghalaya
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Jalisco, Tabasco
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Jamaica [rare]
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala
  Northern South America: Guyana [extirpated?]; Venezuela - Merida, Tachira, Trujillo, Zulia

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland [s.e.], Victoria

• also cultivated

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1976. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Lisowski, S. et al. 1970. Brasenia schreberi J. F. Gmel. (Cabombaceae) sur les hauts plateaux du Katanga (Congo - Kinshasa). Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 40:23–28.
• Lot, A. et al. 1999. Catálogo de angiospermas acuáticas de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 33:82.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:85.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Osborn, J. M. & E. L. Schneider. 1988. Morphological studies of the Nymphaeaceae sensu lato. XVI. The floral biology of Brasenia schreberi. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75:778–794.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Slocum, P. D. et al. 1996. Water gardening: water lilies and lotuses.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Brasenia schreberi.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Brasenia schreberi.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Brasenia schreberi.

Check other web resources for Brasenia schreberi J. F. Gmel.:

• 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 of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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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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