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Photographer: Andrew Hipp
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Family Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum sibiricum Kom.
common water-milfoil, short-spike water-milfoil
Myriophyllum: from Greek myrios, "numberless," and phyllon, "leaf," alluding to the many divisions of the submerged leaves of these aquatic plants
sibiricum: of Siberia
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic; stems with a few branches, light colored, winter bud's stems U-shaped at the base; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | red, 4-parted, winter buds cylindrical; inflorescence a spike held above the water with whorled flowers from axils of short, mostly smooth-edged bracts |
| Fruit: | 4 parted with mostly a smooth surface |
| Leaf: | 4 -5 leaves per whorl, short-stalked; finely, pinnately-divided into 5-12 pairs of thread-like leaflets, the lower ones longer than the upper ones |
| Habitat: | lakes, shallow to more than 16' deep, fairly clear water; in soft sediment soil |
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