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Photographer: Robert Bierman
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Family Cabombaceae
Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.
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Brasenia: for Christoph Brasen, 18th century Moravian missionary who collected plants in Greenland and Labrador
schreberi: for Johann Christian Daniel Schreber (1736-1810), German botanist
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | floating, perennial aquatic, all surfaces below the water covered in thick, slimy, gelatinous coating; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | purple to orange, 6-8-parted, 3/4" wide, held just above the water; blooms June-Aug. |
| Leaf: | elastic stalks attached to the center of the un-notched, elliptical leaf, the upper surface green and the lower surface purple |
| Habitat: | soft water less than 7' deep; in organic muck soil |
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