NameThatPlant.net: Hydrolea quadrivalvis

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydroleaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Waterpod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

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

Hydrolea quadrivalvis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-01-001:

Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Nama quadrivalve

COMMON NAME:
Waterpod

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image of Hydrolea quadrivalvis, Waterpod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_naqu_001_lvd

John B. Nelson jbn_2663197431_ffa7498787

July Dorchester County SC

Flowers borne from leaf axils, some of which bear sharp spines, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydroleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 160-01-001:
Hydrolea quadrivalvis FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama quadrivalve

3094

Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamp forests, backwater sloughs, especially in cypress-gum forests, marshes, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Axillary spines sometimes present

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 included stamens, fused to corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blue/Brown
Capsule

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