Taxon: Heteranthera dubia (Jacq.) MacMill.

Common names:

• water star-grass   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (aquaria plant fide Hortus 3; Dict Gard)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Mexico - Tabasco
  Caribbean: Cuba

References:

• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) - on-line resource. (CONABIO) [= Zosterella dubia].
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer) [= a syn. of Zosterella dubia (Jacq.) Small].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. (Aquat SE US)
• 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)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Rosatti, T. J. 1987. J. Arnold Arbor. 68:36, 57–62.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Heteranthera dubia.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Commelina dubia Jacq. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Zosterella dubia (Jacq.) Small
  

Check other databases for Heteranthera dubia (Jacq.) MacMill.:

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

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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