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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum farwellii Morong
Farwell's milfoil, Farwell's water-milfoil
Myriophyllum: from Greek myrios, "numberless," and phyllon, "leaf," alluding to the many divisions of the submerged leaves of these aquatic plants
farwellii: for its discoverer Oliver Atkins Farwell (1868-1944)
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic, flowers and fruit from submersed leaf axils |
| Flower: | 4-parted, with winter buds |
| Fruit: | 4-parted nutlet divided by 2 bumpy ridges |
| Leaf: | closely-spaced, scattered, some alternate, short-stalked; finely, pinnately-divided into less than 14 pairs of leaflets |
| Habitat: | shallows, water to 7' deep; in fine sediment soil |
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