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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Ludwigia polycarpa
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    MYRTALES
 FAMILY:   ONAGRACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Ludwigia polycarpa
 AUTHORITY:  Short & Peter
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    FALSE LOOSESTRIFE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: LUPO
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         WET
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         WET
     WETLAND
       MARSH
       SWAMP
       BORDER OF LAKE
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOND            BROWN           CALHOUN         CARROLL
   CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLAY            CLINTON
   COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD        CUMBERLAND      DEKALB
   DOUGLAS         DUPAGE          FORD            FULTON          GALLATIN
   GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS
   JACKSON         JEFFERSON       JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         LAKE            LASALLE         LAWRENCE
   LEE             MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MACON           MACOUPIN
   MADISON         MARION          MASON           MASSAC          MENARD
   MONTGOMERY      MORGAN          OGLE            PEORIA          PERRY
   PIATT           PIKE            POPE            RANDOLPH        ROCK ISLAND
   ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        STARK
   WABASH          WARREN          WASHINGTON      WAYNE           WHITE
   WHITESIDE       WILL            WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear   Lanceolate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Solitary- few
    FLOWER MEROUS:  4
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Incomplete  (no petals)   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Green
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Capsule
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Produces basal offshoots.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      6         MONTH END-      9
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in ditches, muddy shores.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     SHOWY FLOWERS:  NO     LANDSCAPING:  NO
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Ludwigia polycarpa
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015