Ruppia maritima L.

RUPPIACEAE

- Ditch-grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Ruppia maritima L.

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

Images of Ruppia maritima

Common names

U.S. name: Widgeongrass

English name: beaked tasselweed

English name: ditch-grass

French name: ruppie maritime

Italian name: Ruppia marittima o fieno di mare

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Ruppia maritima L. var. brevirostris J. Agardh
= Ruppia maritima L. var. exigua Fernald & Wiegand
= Ruppia maritima L. var. intermedia (Thed.) Asch. & Graebn.
= Ruppia maritima L. var. longipes Hagstr.
= Ruppia maritima L. var. obliqua (Schur) Asch. & Graebn.
= Ruppia maritima L. var. pacifica H. St. John & Fosberg
= Ruppia maritima L. var. rostrata J. Agardh
= Ruppia maritima L. var. subcapitata Fernald & Wiegand
= Ruppia pectinata Rydb.

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 923 ( AVG: 221.09 / 219.791 )

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Ruppia maritima
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (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'.

Ruppia maritima
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Ruppia maritima
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: 88.

Ruppia maritima
In anchialine pond at LaPerouse, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ruppia maritima
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova

Ruppia maritima
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Stintino, Stagno delle Saline, SS, Sardegna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ruppia maritima
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monfalcone, piana del Lisert, frammenti rinvenuti sulla battigia., Go, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ruppia maritima
With Megalagrion xanthomelas ovipositing at Cape Hanamanioa, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ruppia maritima
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".

Ruppia maritima
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova

Ruppia maritima
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.

Ruppia maritima
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

Ruppia maritima
Edward G. Voss - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Ruppia maritima
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.

Ruppia maritima
Credit: Photo by Graziano Favaro - Masera' di Padova

Ruppia maritima
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".

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MA, MD, ME, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, RI, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA), USA+ (PR, VI), CAN (BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)

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(*) 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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