Echinodorus cordifolius

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Species Distribution Map
Family:ALISMATACEAE
Species:Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb.
Common Name:Creeping Burhead
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Creeping Burhead is a native herbaceous perennial in the Water-Plantain family (Alismataceae). It occurs in wet ditches, along streams and rivers, and around the margins of ponds and lakes. It usually occurs on clay soils. Creeping Burhead can be found throughout most of Alabama, but is most common along the major rivers. It is an emergent aquatic or wetland species. Plants often grow in shallow water or on exposed muddy banks. It is a perennial from a rhizome. Leaves are petiolate, ovate to elliptic in outline, with entire margins. The base of the leaf is cordate or truncate. The leaves have 3-5 major veins and lines of translucent spots. Flowers are produced in whorls on an elongated raceme. There are from 3-9 whorls of flowers, each with 3-15 flowers. The raceme is arching or prostrate. Small vegetative plantlets sometimes from along the raceme. Individual flowers are pedicellate, perfect, and have 3 green sepals and 3 white petals. The fruit is a beaked achene. Creeping Burhead is available from nurseries that specialize in aquatic plants. It can be grown totally submerged in a large aquarium, or as an emergent in the shallow ends of pools or bog gardens. Several varieties are available including “Tropical Marble” and “Marble Queen” with variegated leaves, “Ovalis” which is a dwarf form, and “Aureus” with yellow-green new growth.--A. Diamond
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Status:Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyALISMATACEAE - Water-Plantain family
Genus Echinodorus
Species Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb. - Creeping Burhead

Citation

Citation Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach, Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 7: 257. 1857.
Basionym: Alisma cordifolium L. 1753.
Type: Without data (lectotype: "Sagittaria Virginiana obtusiore lato folio floribus minoribus albis" in Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. 3: t. 4(6). 1699). Lectotypified by R. R. Haynes & Holm-Nielsen, Brittonia 38: 329. 1986.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Echinodorus barthii Echinodorus barthii Muehlberg, Aquarien-Terrar. Z. 11: 368. 1986.  
Echinodorus cordifolius subsp. fluitans Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach, subsp. fluitans (Fassett) R. R. Haynes & Holm-Nielsen, Brittonia 38: 329. 1986.Echinodorus fluitans Fassett 1955 
Echinodorus fluitans Echinodorus fluitans Fassett, Rhodora 57: 155. 1955.  
Echinodorus ovalis Echinodorus ovalis C. Wright, in Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Ci. Med. Habana 7: 564. 1871.  
Alisma cordifolium Alisma cordifolium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 343. 1753.  
Echinodorus radicans Echinodorus radicans (Nuttall) Engelmann ex A. Gray, Manual 460. 1848.Sagittaria radicans Nuttall 1837. 
Sagittaria radicans Sagittaria radicans Nuttall, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., ser. 2. 5: 159. 1837.  

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman, Dallas, Elmore, Escambia, Etowah, Geneva, Greene, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Lowndes, Madison, Marengo, Marshall, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Perry, Russell, Shelby, Sumter, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Washington, Wilcox

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UNAF, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1962 - 1998

Barcode / Accession No.
County
Coll. Date
Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
UNA00024414 Autauga _ Aug 1874 Smith, Eugene A.
s.n.		 UNA
Echinodorus cordifolius (L.) Griseb.
TROY000047743 Autauga 24 Aug 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
1132		 TROY
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
UWAL0047315 Autauga 24 Aug 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
1132		 UWAL
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
TROY000048592 Autauga 26 Jun 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1735		 TROY
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
UWAL0046167 Autauga 26 Jun 2018 Parker, Matthew R.
1735		 UWAL
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
UNAF0000163 Baldwin 18 Jun 1977 Bentley, Gerald
s.n.		 UNAF
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
UNAF0000164 Baldwin 18 Jun 1977 Hogan, Nancy
s.n.		 UNAF
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
AUA000026235 Baldwin 28 Jun 1977 BOTTS, DANIEL A.
021		 AUA
ECHINODORUS CORDIFOLIUS (L.) GRISEB.
USAM000000863 Baldwin 09 Jul 1979 Dowling, Hugh M.
218		 USAM
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
USAM000000857 Baldwin 09 Jul 1979 Dowling, Hugh M.
218		 USAM
Echinodorus cordifolius (Linnaeus) Grisebach
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