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Internal ID UUID6440269b4f562402368306
Scientific name Vallisneria americana
Authority Michx.
First published in Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 220 (1803)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Vallisneria spiralis var. americana (Michx.) Torr. Comp. Fl. N. Middle Stat. 365. 1826

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Language Common/alternative name
English american eelgrass
English eelgrass
English tape grass
English water-celery
English wild celery
Bulgarian американска валиснерия
Esperanto amerika valisnerio
Esperanto natura celerio
French vallisnérie américaine
French vallisnérie d'amérique
Polish nurzaniec olbrzymi
Polish nurzaniec amerykański
Russian Валлиснерия американская
Chinese 美洲苦草

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Oregon
      • Washington
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Nevada
    • Western Canada
      • Manitoba
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
    • Central America
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000770230
Florida Plant Atlas 2090
Flora of Alabama 4296
Canadensys 6129
USDA Plants VAAM3
Tropicos 16100009
Flora of Italy 10274
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:431972-1
The Plant List kew-308958
PFAF Vallisneria americana
Open Tree Of Life 328973
NCBI Taxonomy 29649
Nature Serve 2.138062
IUCN Red List 64326246
IPNI 431972-1
iNaturalist 123050
GBIF 2865501
Freebase /m/0cw1c0
WisFlora 5329
EPPO VAIAM
EOL 1089032
US Library of Congress sh88007143
USDA GRIN 400354
Wikipedia Vallisneria_americana

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Origin and Early Evolution of Hydrocharitaceae and the Ancestral Role of Stratiotes Ulrich S, Vieira M, Coiro M, Bouchal JM, Geier C, Jacobs BF, Currano ED, Lenz OK, Wilde V, Zetter R, Grímsson F Plants (Basel) 31-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11013807
doi:10.3390/plants13071008
PMID:38611537
Calm after the storm? Similar patterns of genetic variation in a riverine foundation species before and after severe disturbance Ngeve MN, Engelhardt KA, Gray M, Neel MC Ecol Evol 01-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10618894
doi:10.1002/ece3.10670
PMID:37920773
Mate-choice for close kin is associated with improved offspring survival in Lodoicea maldivica, the largest-seeded plant in the world Morgan EJ, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Edwards PJ, Fleischer-Dogley F, Kettle CJ Sci Rep 18-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10507110
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41419-4
PMID:37723314
The seasonal movement of sediment-associated marine-derived nutrients in a morphologically diverse riverbed: the influence of salmon in an Interior British Columbia river Rasmus KA, Petticrew EL, Rex J J Soils Sediments 21-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10542299
doi:10.1007/s11368-023-03563-2
PMID:37791373
Experimental disturbance and productivity gradients drive community diversity in aquatic mesocosms Hart JD, Jenkins DG Ecol Evol 07-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10164646
doi:10.1002/ece3.10049
PMID:37168982
Short and long-term phytoremediation capacity of aquatic plants in Cu-polluted environments Enochs B, Meindl G, Shidemantle G, Wuerthner V, Akerele D, Bartholomew A, Bulgrien B, Davis A, Hoyt K, Kung L, Molina M, Miller E, Winship A, Zhang Y, Graney J, Collins D, Hua J Heliyon 10-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9853361
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e12805
PMID:36685386
Freshwater macrophytes harbor viruses representing all five major phyla of the RNA viral kingdom Orthornavirae Rosario K, Van Bogaert N, López-Figueroa NB, Paliogiannis H, Kerr M, Breitbart M PeerJ 16-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9390326
doi:10.7717/peerj.13875
PMID:35990902
Water column compensation workflow for hyperspectral imaging data Inamdar D, Rowan GS, Kalacska M, Arroyo-Mora JP MethodsX 12-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8693006
doi:10.1016/j.mex.2021.101601
PMID:34984174
Wetland Restoration with Hydrophytes: A Review Rodrigo MA Plants (Basel) 21-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8223994
doi:10.3390/plants10061035
PMID:34063930
Dietary Niche and Growth Rate of the Nonnative Tubenose Goby (Proterorhinus semilunaris) in the Lake Superior Basin Dawson B, Peterson G, Hrabik T, Hoffman J J Great Lakes Res 13-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7589645
doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2020.07.014
PMID:33122871
Responses of Leaf Anatomy and CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms of the Aquatic Plant Ottelia cordata to Variable CO2 Huang W, Han S, Xing Z, Li W Front Plant Sci 14-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7457065
doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.01261
PMID:32922428
Species identity and diversity effects on invasion resistance of tropical freshwater plant communities Petruzzella A, da S. S. R. Rodrigues TA, van Leeuwen CH, de Assis Esteves F, Figueiredo-Barros MP, Bakker ES Sci Rep 27-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC7101304
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-62660-1
PMID:32221401
Submerged Vegetation Responses to Climate Variation and Altered Hydrology in a Subtropical Estuary: Interpreting 33 Years of Change Douglass JG, Chamberlain RH, Wan Y, Doering PH Estuaries Coast 13-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC8193826
doi:10.1007/s12237-020-00721-4
PMID:34121962
Plant-mediated community structure of spring-fed, coastal rivers Lauretta MV, Pine WE III, Walters CJ, Frazer TK PLoS One 30-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC6936880
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219236
PMID:31887115
How well do revegetation plantings capture genetic diversity? Jordan R, Breed MF, Prober SM, Miller AD, Hoffmann AA Biol Lett 16-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6832181
doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0460
PMID:31615374

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