Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium


  Najas minor All. image
Photographer: Paul Skawinski           

Paul Skawinsk
from USDA Plants Website
Family Najadaceae
Najas minor All.
bitter water-nymph
Najas: from Greek Naias, a water nymph
minor: smaller, lesser (see major)
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Status: Introduced - adventive; potentially invasive
Plant: submerged annual, aquatic; stems with many branches near the top, without prickles
Flower: 1-2 per axil; both staminate and pistillate on the same plant
Leaf:stiffening and curving with time; edges with 7-15 teeth per side
(Glossary)

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Caulinia minor (All.) Coss. & Germ.
         
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