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Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
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Key A2: pteridophytes and lycophytes growing as floating or rooted aquatics

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1 Plant with at least some leaves palmately or pinnately lobed or 1-4× pinnately divided (‘fern-like’) and > 2 cm long
1 Plant either a floating aquatic with leaves <5 cm long, or with clover-like or linear leaves.
  2 Plant a floating aquatic
  2 Plant a rooted aquatic.
    3 Plant clover-like, with 4 leaf segments borne terminally
    3 Leaves linear.
      4 Plants cormose or with short rhizomes; leaves numerous, undivided leaves
      4 Plants with creeping rhizomes; leaves few, reduced to a winged petiole