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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Alismataceae
Echinodorus berteroi (Spreng.) Fassett
erect bur-head, tall bur-head, upright bur-head
Echinodorus: from Greek echinos, "a hedgehog," and doros, "a bag or leather bottle," referring to the spiny achenes
berteroi: after Carlo Giuseppe Bertero (1789-1831), an Italian physician
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 4"-24" tall, emergent aquatic |
| Flower: | white, 3-parted, 1/4"-2/5" wide; inflorescence of 3-8 whorls of flowers, with the stalk above the leaves; blooms June-Oct. |
| Fruit: | 40 or more dry seeds per head; ribbed or with ridges, but no wings |
| Leaf: | erect, long-stalked, broadly oval, with rounded tip |
| Habitat: | wet to moist; swamps, ditches; in sandy soil |
| (Glossary) |
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