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§1 Plant

Salvinia minima Baker

vernacular water spangles — species · Salviniaceae


USDA
SAMI7
GBIF
5274860
Rank
species
water spangles (Salvinia minima)
Platephotograph · Janie source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Perennial
Group
Fern
Family
Salviniaceae Martinov
Genus
Salvinia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PR Puerto Rico Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 69 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 69 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 69 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I
Florida view state ↗ 38 I
Georgia view state ↗ 5 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 2 I
Texas view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SAMI7 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5274860 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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