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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Didiplis diandra
FAMILY
Lythraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Water-purslane at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
See Heterophylly of Didiplis diandra (Lythraceae) and a Key to Some Rooted Shallow Water and Shoreline Herbs of the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont (Horn, 2011) for discussion of the submersed and emersed leaf forms of Didiplis, and how to distinguish them from superficially similar species.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Didiplis diandra
FAMILY
Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Didiplis diandra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Didiplis diandra
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-03-001:
Peplis diandra FAMILY Lythraceae
COMMON NAME:
Water-purslane
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Didiplis diandra
FAMILY
Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Didiplis diandra
FAMILY
Lythraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Didiplis diandra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Didiplis diandra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-03-001:
Peplis diandra
FAMILY
Lythraceae
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