Taxon: Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray

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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:

CAª*, CTª, MAª, MEª, PRª, VTª, WAª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Cabomba caroliniana var. caroliniana (no accessions)
• Cabomba caroliniana var. flavida (no accessions)

Common names:

• Carolina fanwort   (Source: NPB State Noxweed CA [http://nationalplantboard.org/docs/summaries/california.pdf]) – English
  
• Carolina water-shield   (Source: Noxweed Aust CA) – English
  
• fanwort   (Source: World Econ Pl CA) – English
  
• fish-grass   (Source: Noxweed Aust CA) – English
  
• Washington-grass   (Source: Hortus 3 CA) – English
  
• Washington-plant   (Source: Websters Dict CA) – English
  
• kabomba   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn CA) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14; Nord J Bot 11:193. 1991)
  
• Weed   (fide Noxweed Aust)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan [s.], New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Rio Negro, Santa Fe; Paraguay - Central, Paraguari; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Jiangsu
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Kerala; Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1975. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. 2:906.
• Hrusa, F. et al. 2002. Catalogue of non-native vascular plants occurring spontaneously in California beyond the Jepson Manual, part I. Madroño 49:61–98. [reports for California].
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mackey, A. P. & J. T. Swarbrick. 1997. Pl. Protect. Quart. 12:154–165.
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• Ørgaard, M. 1991. The genus Cabomba (Cabombaceae) - a taxonomic study. Nordic J. Bot. 11:199.
• Panetta, F. D. et al., eds. 1998. The biology of Australian weeds. 19–36.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Pott, V. J. & A. Pott. 1997. Checklist das macrófitas aquáticas do Pantanal, Brasil. Acta Bot. Brasil. 11:219.
• Schneider, E. L. & J. M. Jeter. 1982. Morphological studies of the Nymphaeaceae. XII. The floral biology of Cabomba caroliniana. Amer. J. Bot. 69:1410–1419.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Wanderley, M. G. L., ed. 2001–. Flora fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo.
• Wiersema, J. H. 1989. A new species of Cabomba (Cabombaceae) from tropical America. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76:1168.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cabomba caroliniana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cabomba caroliniana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cabomba caroliniana.

Synonyms:

• Cabomba australis Speg. [= Cabomba caroliniana var. caroliniana]
  
• Cabomba caroliniana var. pulcherrima R. M. Harper [= Cabomba caroliniana var. caroliniana]
  
• Cabomba pulcherrima (R. M. Harper) Fassett [= Cabomba caroliniana var. caroliniana]
  

Check other web resources for Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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