NameThatPlant.net: Marsilea mutica

Monilophytes (ferns): Leptosporangiate Ferns (true ferns): Salviniales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Marsilea mutica FAMILY Marsileaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Leaves of Marsilea mutica are strongly bicolored (pale green toward the base of each of the 4 leaflets, darker green toward the tip), vs. those of other Marsilea in our area unicolored). It is apparently spreading rapidly in VA, per Weakley's Flora (2023)

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Marsilea mutica FAMILY Marsileaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Marsilea mutica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Marsilea mutica

COMMON NAME:
Australian Waterclover, Nardoo

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Marsilea mutica FAMILY Marsileaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Marsilea mutica FAMILY Marsileaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Marsilea mutica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Marsilea mutica

3838

Fern/Fern ally; Emergent aquatic (rooted)
Perennial

Habitat: Ditches, ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Australasia

Waif(s)

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:
Evergreen, but dormant in cold weather? Leaves deciduous in temperate regions?
Each leaf (frond) palmately divided into 4 leaflets, resembling a 4-leaf clover

FRUIT:

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"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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