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Aquatic plants

Myriophyllum crispatum
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              Upright Water-Milfoil

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Wetland Planting Zone
Submerged Marsh
Approved Format
600cc
Family
Haloragaceae
Form
Myriophyllum crispatum is a robust erect perennial herb with soft curly hairs on stems and leaf bases, rooting at the leaf nodes
Foliage
Submerged leaves and emergent leaves are different.
Submerged leaves are egg-shaped, 10-40mm long in rings of 5-8, leaves divided to midrib with close narrow segments like teeth on a comb
Emergent leaves have rings of 6-9, decreasing from broadly lance-shaped and divided to toothed, to needle-like and entire to 20mm
Flowers
Single, stalkless male and female flowers in upper leaf axils. Female flowers lack sepals and petals, with white stigmas.
Fruit
Fruit is cubiform, yellow-brown to deep red
Habitat
Upright Water-Milfoil is aquatic to a depth of 1m, or semi-aquatic in swamps and mud and still to slow flowing streams. Full sun, semi-shade
Distinctive Features
This plant is readily identified by the presence of crisped hairs on the stems and leaf bases
Similar Species
Similar to other Myriophyllum species, but distinguished by the stems and leaf-bases
Comments
Freely roots from nodes in the mud
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