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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum tenellum Bigelow
dwarf water-milfoil, slender water-milfoil
Myriophyllum: from Greek myrios, "numberless," and phyllon, "leaf," alluding to the many divisions of the submerged leaves of these aquatic plants
tenellum: tender
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, 1"-7" tall aquatic, in a dense cluster of thin, toothpick-like, unbranched stems; from buried rhizomes |
| Flower: | pale, 4-parted, small; flowers from stem tips that rise above the water surface |
| Fruit: | nut-like |
| Leaf: | small scale or bump |
| Habitat: | water to 5' deep; in sandy soil |
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