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quillwort

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quillwort, common name for several species of the plant genus Isoetes, which grow in ponds, slow streams, and swampy places. See Lycopodiophyta Lycopodiophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of the organisms commonly called club mosses and quillworts. As in other vascular plants, the sporophyte, or spore-producing phase, is the conspicuous generation, and the gametophyte, or gamete-producing
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quillwort [′kwil‚wȯrt]
(botany)
The common name for plants of the genusIsoetes.
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The species include the Barn Owl, Eastern Prairie Fringed-Orchid, Engelmann's Quillwort, Few-flowered Club-rush, Jefferson Salamander, American Badger, Peregrine Falcon, Western Silvery Aster and Wood Turtle.
Brant under watch for Jefferson Salamander by Paris Chronicle (Paris, Canada)
Gould--SE), clustered fescue (Festuca paradoxa--ST), blackfoot quillwort (Isoetes melanopoda--ST), Wolf bluegrass (Poa wolfii--SR), rough rattlesnake root (Prenanthes aspera--SR), and Wolf spikerush (Eleocharis wolfii--SR).
A brief survey of the rare terrestrial natural communities and ... by Homoya, Michael A. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
The contact between the Hattiesburg Formation and Upland Complex appears to define the habitat of the Louisiana quillwort (Isoetes louisianensis).
GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
 
 
 
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