Taxon: Najas minor All.

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:

CTª, MAª, MEª, NHª, SCª, WAª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• brittle naiad   (Source: web document) – English
  
• European naiad   (Source: NPB State Noxweeds ) – English
  
• slender naiad   (Source: NPB State Noxweeds ) – English
  
• slender-leaf naiad   (Source: web document) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal

      Naturalized:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Dandy, J. E. 1970. Annotated list of the new names published in Allioni's Auctarium ad synopsium stirpium horti reg. taurinensis. Taxon 19:622.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Hegi, G. et al. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- (IllF MEur)
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries. (NPB State Noxweeds) [re. common names for noxious weeds of Maine and South Carolina].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Najas minor.

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

Check other databases for Najas minor All.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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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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?416233 (09 February 2010)

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