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Featherfoil
Hottonia inflata
Hottonia inflata, the American featherfoil or featherfoil, is an aquatic plant in the family Primulaceae.
From the article Hottonia inflata on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This aquatic wildflower has basal fibrous roots buried in the underlying mud, while thin, feather-like roots float freely in the water. The leaves are somewhat variable and can be submergent or floating. The leaves can be linear or filiform and arranged alternately, oppositely or whorled, with pinnate or bipinnate divisions. Its flowers are small and white or violet in color and are located at the end of thickly inflated flower stalks.
Range & habitat
Featherfoil occurs sporadically in the eastern United States, from Texas to Maine, in the coastal plains along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143759.