Taxon: Ludwigia palustris (L.) Elliott

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Common names:

• Hampshire-purslane   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• marsh ludwigia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• marsh-purslane   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• water-purslane   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ludwigia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

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

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec [s.w.]
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  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, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Federal District, Jalisco, Michoacan, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bermuda; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala
  Western South America: Colombia

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

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• 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).
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Beal, E. O. & J. W. Thieret. 1986. Aquatic and wetland plants of Kentucky.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) (on-line resource).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Crow, G. E. & C. B. Hellquist. 2000. Aquatic and wetland plants of northeastern North America, 2 vol.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Munz, P. A. 1965. Onagraceae. In: Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2, North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 ser. 2, 5:51–52.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948–63. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
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• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Isnardia palustris L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Ludwigia palustris (L.) Elliott:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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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