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Taxon: Rorippa aquatica (Eaton) E.J.Palmer & Steyermark
Family: Brassicaceae

Collector: Alverson, William S.   1671   

Date: 1980-07-22

Locality: United States, Wisconsin, Bayfield, Lost Creeks.

Verbatim Coordinates: T51N R06W sec32

Habitat: Forms extensive colonies of dense, submerged beds, with tens of thousands of individual stems. Only one plant seen in flower but many emergent stems of older, well-established beds bear young flower buds. Older, erect (vertical) shoots, when disturbed,. lose all of the leaves from the middle portions of the stem. These more or less epetiolate leave then float away with what appears to be an attached axillary bud (?), from which a root (and shoot?) develops. Broken portions of the cord-lIke stems

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Record Id: 653fc62d-148b-49c6-ac33-5821eb709379

Occurrence ID (GUID): b63027e0-f95b-11e2-9dec-002590257708

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Mary Ann Feist (mfeist@wisc.edu)

University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS:VP)