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§1 Plant
Elatine brachysperma A. Gray
vernacular shortseed waterwort — species · Elatinaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Elatinaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Elatine
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 68 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 68 counties across 15 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N ▾
California view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Alpine 06003
- Butte 06007
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Orange 06059
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELBR5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5421100 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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