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Fam.: Haloragaceae / Water Milfoil Fam.  

Genus:  Myriophyllum  L.

The plant grows in shallow water, its flowers are jutting out of the water. The female blossoms have four feathery stigmas (see Fig. 8 - 9), the male blossoms consist of eight stamens (Fig. 2 - 6). The fruits (Fig. 7) are containing four seed compartments.


Authors:
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Myriophyllum:   myrios = thousand, phyllon = leaf
   verticillatum:   whorled
 

Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 1:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 2:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 3:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 4:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 5:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 6:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Fig. 7:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe Fritschlach 31.7.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Eisenberg 2.8.2008
Fig. 8:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Eisenberg 2.8.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Eisenberg 2.8.2008
Fig. 9:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Eisenberg 2.8.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Karlsruhe 26.9.2009
Fig. 10:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Karlsruhe 26.9.2009
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Kaiserstuhl,  Burkheim 1.6.2021
Fig. 11:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil
D Kaiserstuhl, Burkheim 1.6.2021
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Heidelberg 14.9.2008
Fig. 12:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil (underwater leaves)
D Heidelberg 14.9.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Heidelberg 14.9.2008
Fig. 13:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil (underwater leaves)
D Heidelberg 14.9.2008
Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil, D Heidelberg 14.9.2008
Fig. 14:  Myriophyllum verticillatum / Whorled Water Milfoil (underwater leaves)
D Heidelberg 14.9.2008

 


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