Potamogeton pusillus L.

POTAMOGETONACEAE

- Pondweed family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Potamogeton pusillus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 127 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Small pondweed

English name: lesser pondweed

English name: small pondweed

French name: potamot nain

Italian name: Lingua d'acqua esile

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:

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Potamogeton pusillus
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - 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".

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Staranzano., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Potamogeton pusillus
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Potamogeton pusillus
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: 84.

Potamogeton pusillus
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 pusillus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Potamogeton pusillus
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Potamogeton pusillus
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 pusillus
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Potamogeton pusillus
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

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

Distributional map for Potamogeton pusillus L.
Map for Potamogeton pusillus 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 pusillus L. ssp. groenlandicus (Hagstr.) Bocher [141]
2) Potamogeton pusillus L. var. minor (Biv.) Fernald & B.G. Schub. [145]
3) Potamogeton pusillus L. var. mucronatus (Fieber) Graebn. [139]
4) Potamogeton pusillus L. var. tenuissimus Mert. & W.D.J. Koch [98]
5) Potamogeton spirillus Tuck. [367]
6) Potamogeton strictifolius Benn. var. typicus Fernald [94]
7) Potamogeton zosteriformis Fernald [398]
8) Potentilla anserina L. [608]
9) Potentilla anserina L. var. lanata B. Boivin [95]
10) Potentilla argyrea Rydb. [146]

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