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Crassulaceae
Crassula

not marked as a favorite taxon Crassula aquatica (Linnaeus) Schönland. Common name: Pygmyweed. Phenology: Apr-Aug; May-Sep. Habitat: Tidal marshes and shores, shores and mudflats of artificial lakes and reservoirs. Distribution: Occurring in tidal marshes and shores, south to Maryland and se. Pennsylvania, and also inland along shores and mudflats of inland reservoirs in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama (Kartesz 1999, FNA, England 2013). Reported for Alabama by England (2013).

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Inland records have fruiting pedicels 1-19 mm long (such populations sometimes considered as the segregate taxon C. saginoides), while coastal populations have fruiting pedicels which remain < 1 mm long.

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Can, FNA8, K1, K4, NE, NS, Pa, POWO; = n/a — RAB; = Tillaea aquatica L. — F, GW2, Tat; = Tillaeastrum aquaticum (L.) Britton — S, S13; > Crassula aquatica (L.) Schönland — Bywater & Wickens (1984); > Crassula saginoides (Maximilian) M.Bywater & Wickens — Bywater & Wickens (1984); < Tillaea aquatica L. var. aquatica — Tx. Basionym: Tillaea aquatica L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Crassula aquatica - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
  • Great Plains: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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