OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Helanthium tenellum   FAMILY Alismataceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus tenellus   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Helanthium tenellum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22 (2000)

Echinodorus tenellus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Echinodorus tenellus

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Echinodorus parvulus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Helanthium parvulum

 

COMMON NAME:
Mud-babies, Dwarf-burhead, Pigmy Chain-sword


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image of Helanthium tenellum, Mud-babies, Dwarf-burhead, Pigmy Chain-sword

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hepa21_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Helanthium tenellum   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinodorus tenellus   FAMILY Alismataceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Helanthium tenellum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 22
Echinodorus tenellus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Echinodorus tenellus

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Echinodorus parvulus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Helanthium parvulum

 

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4858

Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: On drawdown zones of Coastal Plain ponds, pineland ponds, pondcypress savannas in clay-based Carolina bays, blackwater riverbanks, or ponds in the Mountains with Coastal Plain affinities (Augusta County, VA); also apparently adventive on drawdown zones of artificial impoundments (Lake Chatuge, sw. NC and n. GA), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
Leaves have long petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
3-merous
3 sepals
3 petals
6 or 9 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Reddish-brown
Achene

 

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