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Photographer: Michael Clayton
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Family Isoetaceae
Isoetes echinospora Durieu
spiny-spored quillwort, stiff quillwort
Isoetes: from Greek isos, "ever," and etas, "green," implying the character of being evergreen. Note"
echinospora: echinus for "sea-urchin, hedgehog;" hence "spiny;" spora for "seed"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic; underground, thick, lobed stem with forked roots |
| Fruit: | spore with sharp spines in brown spotted sac, spore sac in bowl-shaped base of leaves |
| Leaf: | 4 long air chambers, center vein, pale to medium green, soft, tapering to tip |
| Habitat: | wet; lakes, ponds, soft water to > 7'; in sandy, sediment soil |
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