Potamogeton crispus L.

POTAMOGETONACEAE

- Pondweed family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Potamogeton crispus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 126 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Curly pondweed

English name: curled pondweed

English name: curly pondweed

French name: potamot crépu

Italian name: Brasca increspata

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Alismatidae
Order: Najadales
Family: Potamogetonaceae
Genus: Potamogeton
Species:

Page counter: 1850 ( AVG: 221.72 / 290.649 )

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Potamogeton crispus
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Potamogeton crispus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Talmassons, località Flambro, risorgive., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Potamogeton crispus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Polcenigo, sorgente La Santissima., PN, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Potamogeton crispus
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Potamogeton crispus
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Potamogeton crispus
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Potamogeton crispus
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Potamogeton crispus
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Potamogeton crispus
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Potamogeton crispus
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 81.

Potamogeton crispus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, ON, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Potamogeton crispus L.
Map for Potamogeton crispus L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Potamogeton curtissii Morong [134]
2) Potamogeton dimorphus Raf. [127]
3) Potamogeton diversifolius Raf. [389]
4) Potamogeton epihydrus Raf. [417]
5) Potamogeton epihydrus Raf. var. ramosus (Peck) House [148]
6) Potamogeton filiformis Pers. var. alpinus (Blytt) Asch. & Graebn. [150]
7) Potamogeton friesii Rupr. [482]
8) Potamogeton heterophyllus Schreb. [188]
9) Potamogeton lucens auct. non L. [202]
10) Potamogeton polygonifolius Pourr. [219]

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