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Photographer: Andrew Hipp
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Family Haloragaceae
Myriophyllum verticillatum L.
whorled water-milfoil
Myriophyllum: from Greek myrios, "numberless," and phyllon, "leaf," alluding to the many divisions of the submerged leaves of these aquatic plants
verticillatum: whorled
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, submersed aquatic; stems greenish-brown |
| Flower: | 4-parted, club-shaped winter buds; flowers from the axils of the sharp, deeply-lobed, whorled bracts |
| Leaf: | whorled, stalkless; finely pinnately-divided into 7-10 thread-like, paired leaflets |
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