Myriophyllum spicatum
Notifiable organism
Eurasian water milfoil
- Scientific Name
- Myriophyllum spicatum
- Origin
- Europe, Asia and North Africa
- Type
- Weed
- Plant Life-form Type
- Submerged
- Taxonomy
- L.
- Presence
- Not known to be in NZ
- Habitat
- Moderately flowing to still water bodies
- Notes
- A major weed in temperate countries.
- Propagation
- Plant fragments, rhizomes. Rarely from seed
- Features
- Submerged perennial plant, with finely dissected leaves in whorls. Submerged stems are 4 (to 7m ) long, with most branching at the water surface. Submergerd leaves (2 to 4 cm long), 3-6 whorled per node, are pinnately divided into linear lobes. Emergent leaves are bract like and occur when plants are flowering. Flowers are pinkish, whorled and occure on spikes 4 to 8 cm long.
- Source
- TIFBIS