Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salvinia minima
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
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Leaves borne in 3s; appear 2-ranked, but with 3rd leaf finely dissected and dangling, resembling roots. Read more at Center for Aquatic & Invasive Plants.
Salvinia is a floating aquatic, with leaves borne in whorls of three, two of which are the conspicuous floating leaves, to 5 cm long, and round or elliptical; the third leaf is dissected and pendant into the water. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvinia minima
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Salvinia auriculata
COMMON NAME:
Water Spangles, Floating Fern
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JK Marlow jkm160914_136b
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
Hairs of upper leaf surface w 4 free, spreading branches [not joined at tips], per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160914_136c
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
Leaves entire, about 1cm in diameter, round or oval with a cordate base, per Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986).
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JK Marlow jkm160914_137
September
SE-EPPC Aquatic Plant ID Workshop
Half the size of Giant Salvinias (S. molesta, biloba, herzogii, auriculata), per New Invaders of the Southeast (Rawlins et al., 2018).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salvinia minima
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvinia minima
FAMILY
Salviniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Salvinia minima
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Ferns of the Southeastern States (Small, 1938)
Salvinia auriculata
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Fern/Fern ally; Floating aquatic (rootless)
Annual/Perennial
Habitat: Quiet waters, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Neotropics
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Two simple, floating emergent leaves; & a third, divided underwater leaf
Whorls of 3
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (Snyder & Bruce, 1986) p178
- The Ferns and Lycophytes of Texas (Diggs & Lipscomb, 2014) p289
- Ferns of Alabama (Short & Spaulding, 2012) p297
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p439
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