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| Botanical Name: | Myriophyllum crispatum |
| Common Name: | upright water-milfoil, water milfoil |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Aquatic |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Wet, Boggy, Poorly Drained, Aquatic |
| Foliage: | Submerged - egg-shaped, 10-40 mm long in rings of 5-8, leaves divided to midrib with close narrow segments like teeth on a comb; Emergent - rings of 6-9, decreasing from broadly lance-shaped and divided to toothed, to needle-like & entire to 20 mm. |
| Flowers: | October to April. Cream to reddish-brown male flowers. Single stalkless male and female flowers in upper leaf axils. Female flowers lack sepals and petals, white stigmas. Fruit cubic, yellow-brown to dark red. |
| General Comments: | Attracts frogs. Aquatic to a depth of 1 m or semi-aquatic in swamps and mud and still to slow flowing streams. Interesting plant for muddy to wet areas. Grow in pools and dams. |
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This image by Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park, has licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/>
This image by Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park, has licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/>
This image by Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park, has licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/>
This image by Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park, has licence: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/>
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