Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Onagraceae | Ludwigia alata | Winged Seedbox | Interdune ponds, freshwater to slightly brackish (oligohaline) marshes, cypress swamps. | Se. VA south to s. FL, west to se. LA; disjunct in Jamaica, where apparently introduced. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia alternifolia | Alternate-leaved Seedbox | Freshwater tidal marshes, ditches, other marshes, open wet places, disturbed wet places. | MA west to s. ON, s. MI, IA, and KS, south to n. FL and e. TX. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia arcuata | Pondshore Seedbox | Marshes or submerged in water of natural Coastal Plain ponds. | Ne. SC south to s. FL, west to Panhandle FL and s. AL. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia bonariensis | Freshwater tidal marshes and adjacent disturbed areas. | Apparently native of tropical America. Locally abundant in disturbed edges of freshwater tidal marshes near Wilmington, NC, perhaps introduced on ship's ballast. | ||
Onagraceae | Ludwigia brevipes | Long Beach Seedbox, Coastal Plain Water-purslane | Pondshores, blackwater rivers, interdunal swales, borrow ponds, ditches, impoundments, tidal freshwater marshes, other marshes. | NJ south to e. GA (Jones & Coile 1988), and Panhandle FL (Escambia County), in the Coastal Plain. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia curtissii | Curtiss’s Seedbox | Pine savannas, flatwoods, marshes, marl prairies, pond shores. | Nc. FL south to s. FL; Bahamas. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia decurrens | Wingstem Water-primrose | Swamp forests, marshes, ditches. | MD, w. VA, WV, s. IN, s. IL, and MO, south to s. FL and TX; West Indies; Mexico (CAM, CHP, COL, JAL, MIC, NAY, TAB), Central America and South America; Africa and Asia. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia erecta | Yerba de Jicotea | Marshes, swamps, pineland ponds. | FL; West Indies; tropical America; tropical Africa and Madagascar. Also in Coastal Plain of MS and e. TX, probably by introduction. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia glandulosa | Small-flowered Seedbox | Low forests, marshes, ditches. | E. MD south to n. FL, west to e. TX, north in the interior to c. TN, w. KY, s. IN, s. IL, se. MO, c. AR, and se. OK, primarily on the Southeastern Coastal Plain. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia grandiflora | Showy Water-primrose | Ponds, lakes, sluggish waters of ditches or streams. | Se. SC south to FL, west to TX; disjunct in MO, Guatemala, and in s. South America. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia hexapetala | Common Water-primrose | Ponds, lakes, sluggish waters of ditches or streams. | NC south to FL, west to OK and TX; also in CA, Europe, South America, Mexico; also introduced farther north in North America. Reported for DE and MD (Longbottom, Naczi, & Knapp 2016). | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia hirtella | Rafinesque's Seedbox, Spindleroot, Hairy Seedbox | Pine savannas, rarely inland in boggy seepage in barrens and oak flatwoods. | S. NJ south to Panhandle FL, west to e. TX, north in the interior to KY, c. TN, AR, and se. OK. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia lanceolata | Lanceleaf Seedbox | Pocosins, interdune ponds, open wet areas. | Se. NC south to c. peninsular FL, west to Panhandle FL. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia leptocarpa | Water-willow | Riverbanks, marshes, swamps, and ditches, often on logs or tree bases in deep swamps. | VA south to c. peninsular FL, west to e. TX, north in the interior along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to se. MO, s. IL, and w. WV; and in tropical America. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia linearis var. linearis | Eastern Narrowleaf Seedbox | Pine savannas, swamps, marshes. | Var. linearis ranges from s. NJ south to c. peninsular FL, west to se. LA, extending inland to the Cumberland Plateau of nc. AL and c. TN. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia linearis var. puberula | Western Narrowleaf Seedbox | Pine savannas, prairies, interdunal swales, ditches. | Var. puberula ranges primarily from c. AL west to c. AR and e. MO, south to e. TX, with intergradational material extending as far north and east as n. FL and e. NC. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia linifolia | Flaxleaf Seedbox | Limesink ponds (dolines) and Taxodium ascendens savannas; wet pine savannas. | Nc. NC south to s. FL, west to s. MS; disjunct in s. Mexico (TAB). | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia longifolia | Longleaf Seedbox | Swamps, marshes. | Native of South America. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia maritima | Harper's Seedbox | Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, bogs. | E. NC south to s. peninsular FL, west to e. LA. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia microcarpa | Small-fruited Seedbox | In circumneutral or alkaline soils of moist places, over calcareous rock, mafic rock, shell hash, or brackish sands, such as in maritime wet grasslands, savannas and adjacent ditches over coquina limestone (‘marl’), and wet clay flats over diabase, often in roadside ditches, and inland in calcareous fens and wet calcareous glades. | Ne. NC south to s. FL, west to se. TX (Brown & Marcus 1998); disjunct inland on calcareous or mafic rocks in nc. NC, nc. SC, n. GA, n. AL, c. and e. TN, sc. MO, and nc. AR; also in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia octovalvis | Mexican Primose-willow | Marshes, disturbed areas. | Se. NC south to s. FL, west to TX; and widespread in tropical America; Old World tropics and subtropics. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia palustris | Common Water-purslane | In a wide range of natural and altered moist to wet, disturbed areas, such as ditches, marshes, swamps, saturated firelanes and other wet sandy areas. Often in areas with some standing water, at least seasonally. | Widespread in North America, West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America, Central Eurasia, Africa, and Asia. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia peploides var. glabrescens | Floating Primrose-willow | Pools, ditches, disturbed places. | PA, VA and NC south and west to FL and AZ; Mexico; Venezuela. Doubtfully native in the eastern parts of our area. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia peploides var. montevidensis | Marshes. | Native of South America. | ||
Onagraceae | Ludwigia peploides var. peploides | Canals, ditches, sluggish waters. | TX, NM, AZ, and CA south to Mexico, Central America, South America; West Indies. | ||
Onagraceae | Ludwigia peruviana | Primrose-willow | Swamps, pondshores. | Native of the Neotropics. In s. GA (Jones & Coile 1988). Reported for NC (Kartesz 1999, 2022). All or part of the Southeastern distribution is as an alien species. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia pilosa | Hairy Seedbox | Swamps, ditches, blackwater streams, other wet places. | Se. VA south to n. FL, west to se. TX, restricted to the Coastal Plain except for disjunct occurrences inland in NC, VA, and n. AL. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia polycarpa | Manyfruit Seedbox | Wet meadows, swales. | MA, CT, and w. VT west to s. ON, MI, WI, MN, and c. NE, south to c. VA, KY, s. IL, s. MO, and e. KS. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia ravenii | Raven's Seedbox | Margins of Coastal Plain ponds, wet pine savannas, swamps, marshes, wet open places. | Se. VA south to ne. FL, restricted to the Coastal Plain. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia repens | Creeping Seedbox | Ditches, pools, and streams. | Se. VA south to s. FL, west to TX, CA, and n. Mexico, north in the interior to TN, MO, and OK; Bermuda; West Indies; Central and South America. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia simpsonii | Simpson's Seedbox | Ponds, ditches. | Ne. FL, Panhandle FL, s. MS (?) south to s. FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica). | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia spathulata | Southern Water-purslane | Sinkhole ponds, cypress-gum ponds, depression meadows, boggy shores. | SC south to Panhandle FL and s. AL. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia species 1 [brachycarpa] | Prairies, meadows, ditches, seeps. | Sw. AR and s. OK south to sw. LA and e. and c. TX. | ||
Onagraceae | Ludwigia sphaerocarpa | Globe-fruited Seedbox | Boggy areas, pools, ditches, river marshes, interdune swales, river and pondshores, tidal freshwater marshes. | E. MA south to n. FL, west to e. TX, primarily on the Coastal Plain, spottily distributed in that range, and also disjunct in w. NY, sc. TN, s. IN, and nw. IN, ne. and s. IL. Recently rediscovered in Illinois in 2019 by Paul Marcum in Pope County, approximately 160 years after first being discovered in the state much further north in Cook County. This species otherwise primarily occurs in the coastal plain outside of its Great Lakes disjunction. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia suffruticosa | Shrubby Seedbox | Periodically to seasonally flooded portions of limesink ponds (dolines) and pondcypress savannas of clay-based Carolina bays, other seasonally ponded wetlands. | Se. NC south to s. peninsular FL, west to Panhandle FL and se AL. | |
Onagraceae | Ludwigia virgata | Savanna Seedbox | Wet pine savannas and pine flatwoods. | Se. VA south to s. peninsular FL, west to Panhandle FL and se. AL. |
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