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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Spiderworts and Allies
  6. Pickerelweeds

family

Pickerelweeds

Pontederiaceae

Includes
6 native 1 introduced 3 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Mud Plantains 5 native
  • Pickerel Weeds 1 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native pickerelweeds All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata caterpillars 4 bees 3 food 7 flowers 124
  • Blue Mudplantain Heteranthera limosa food 2
  • Water Star-grass Heteranthera dubia food 1
  • Kidneyleaf Mud Plantain Heteranthera reniformis
  • Missouri Mud Plantain Heteranthera missouriensis
  • Atlantic Mud Plantain Heteranthera pauciflora

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