Trapa natans L.

LYTHRACEAE

- Loosestrife family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Trapa natans L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 120 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Water chestnut

English name: bull-nut

English name: bullnut

Spanish name: castaña de agua

French name: saligot

Italian name: Castagna d'acqua

German name: Wassernuß

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Trapa bispinosa Roxb.
= Trapa natans L. var. bispinosa (Roxb.) Makino
= Trapa natans L. var. natans

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Trapa natans L. var. bispinosa (Roxb.) Makino
2) Trapa natans L. var. natans

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae
Genus: Trapa
Species:

Page counter: 2100 ( AVG: 223.88 / 293.329 )

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Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Trapa natans
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Trapa natans
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ferrara, Orto Botanico, centro storico. , FE, Emilia Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Trapa natans
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto botanico dell'Università di Padova, PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Trapa natans
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

Trapa natans
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'.

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Trapa natans
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Trapa natans
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Trapa natans
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. 2: 612.

Trapa natans
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.

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Trapa natans
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Trapa natans
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".

Trapa natans
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - 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.

Trapa natans
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Trapa natans
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Padova, Orto Botanico. , PD, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (DC, DE, MA, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, VT), CAN (QC)

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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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More species:
1) Trapa natans L. var. natans [141]
2) Trautvetteria grandis Nutt. [191]
3) Trema orientalis (L.) Blume [1776]
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5) Triadenum walteri (J.G. Gmel.) Gleason [308]
6) Tribulus cistoides L. [849]
7) Trichloris crinita (Lag.) Parodi [857]
8) Trichomanes membranaceum L. [462]
9) Trichostema lanatum Benth. [294]
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