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Hydrilla verticillata (waterthyme)

Synonyms: Elodea verticillata; Epigynanthus blumei; Hydora lithuanica; Hydrilla angustifolia; Hydrilla dentata; Hydrilla dentata pomeranica; Hydrilla lithuanica; Hydrilla najadifolia; Hydrilla ovalifolia; Hydrilla polysperma; Hydrilla roxburghii; Hydrilla subulata; Hydrilla verticillata brevifolia; Hydrilla verticillata crispa; Hydrilla verticillata roxburghii; Hydrilla verticillata tenuis; Hydrilla wightii; Hydrospondylus submersus; Ixia aquatica; Serpicula verticillata; Udora lithuanica; Udora occidentalis; Udora pomeranica; Udora verticillata; Vallisneria verticillata

Wikipedia Abstract

Hydrilla (Esthwaite Waterweed or Hydrilla) is an aquatic plant genus, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species. Synonyms include H. asiatica, H. japonica, H. lithuanica, and H. ovalifolica.
View Wikipedia Record: Hydrilla verticillata

Invasive Species

Hydrilla verticillata is a submerged freshwater aquatic weed that can tolerate salinity up to 7%. It crowds out native plants by shading them and out-competing them for nutrients. The dense masses it forms interfere with recreational activities such as boating, fishing and swimming. Hydrilla verticillata can be dispersed by river flow, waterfowl and recreational activities and is sold as an aquarium plant.
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Attributes

Width [2]  6.6 feet (2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Strong Base
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Submerged
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Water
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The plant is used in sugar refinery; No more details are given.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Arun Valley 1205 England, United Kingdom
Big Cypress National Preserve V 732120 Florida, United States
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes 5491 England, United Kingdom
Dungeness 7966 England, United Kingdom
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Llangorse Lake/ Llyn Syfaddan 533 Wales, United Kingdom  
Lower Derwent Valley 2263 England, United Kingdom
Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes 3127 England, United Kingdom
Morecambe Bay Pavements 6449 England, United Kingdom
Nene Washes 218 England, United Kingdom
Pevensey Levels 8860 England, United Kingdom  
Razna 147312 Latvia  
River Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lake 4529 England, United Kingdom
River Eden 6087 England, United Kingdom  
River Wye/ Afon Gwy 5523 England/Wales, United Kingdom  
Sikhote-Alinskiy Biosphere Reserve 978001 Russia  
Silene 9452 Latvia  
Stodmarsh 1395 England, United Kingdom
The New Forest 72309 England, United Kingdom
Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham 12696 England, United Kingdom
Tortuguero National Park II 47632 Costa Rica

Ecosystems

Predators

Kachuga tecta (Indian Roofed Turtle)[5]
Pseudemys concinna concinna (Eastern river cooter)[6]
Pseudemys concinna floridana (Common cooter)[6]
Pseudemys nelsoni (Florida Redbelly Turtle)[6]
Pseudemys texana (Texas River Cooter)[7]
Trichechus manatus (West Indian Manatee)[8]
Chelydra serpentina (Common Snapping Turtle)[9]
Lymnaea stagnalis (swamp lymnaea)[9]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Aedes albopictus (forest day mosquito)[9]
Ambystoma maculatum (Spotted Salamander)[9]
Ameiurus natalis (Yellow bullhead)[9]
Anax junius (green darner)[9]
Anguilla rostrata (American eel)[9]
Calopteryx maculata (Ebony jewelwing)[9]
Corydalus cornutus (dobsonfly)[9]
Dolomedes triton (Six-spottedfishingspider)[9]
Euglena gracilis (Euglena)[9]
Gambusia holbrooki (Bore-drain fish)[9]
Ischnura posita (Fragile forktail)[9]
Lampsilis radiata (eastern lampmussel)[9]
Libellula lydia (Common whitetail)[9]
Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri (Aquatic worm)[9]
Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog)[9]
Micropterus salmoides (Northern largemouth bass)[9]
Nerodia sipedon (Northern Water Snake)[9]
Notemigonus crysoleucas (Golden shiner minnow)[9]
Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Strawberry bass)[9]
Procotyla fluviatilis (Flatworm)[9]
Semotilus atromaculatus (Horned dace)[9]
Chelydra serpentina (Common Snapping Turtle)[9]
Lymnaea stagnalis (swamp lymnaea)[9]

Distribution

E. Europe to Asia, Uganda to N. Zambia; Old World;

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Govaerts R., 06-Jan-2005, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 5Seasonal Variation in Feeding Behaviour of Indian Roofed Turtle, Pangshura tectum in Bangladesh, Md. Lokman Hossain, Shorab Uddin Sarker and Noor Jahan Sarker, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 15 (1) 53-58 June 2008 ♦ 6Dietary Overlap in Three Sympatric Congeneric Freshwater Turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Cynthia J. Lagueux and Dale R. Jackson, Chelonian Conservation Biology, 1997, 2(3):430-433 ♦ 7Food Habits and Selective Foraging by the Texas River Cooter (Pseudemys texana) in Spring Lake, Hays County, Texas, JACQUELINE R. FIELDS, THOMAS R. SIMPSON, RICHARD W. MANNING, AND FRANCIS L. ROSE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 726–729, 2003 ♦ 8Consumption of Aquatic Plants by the West Indian Manatee, Kay Etheridge, G. B. Rathbun, J. A. Powell, and H. I. Kochman, J. Aquat. Plant Manage. 23: 21-25 (1985) ♦ 9Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
Invasive Status provided by Global Invasive Species Database Downloaded on 10 May 2011.
Protected Areas provided by GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility ♦ Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators. ♦ Natura 2000, UK data: © Crown copyright and database right [2010] All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100017955
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