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Helanthium tenellum, the pygmy chain sword, is a species of plants in the Alismataceae. It is native to the eastern United States (from Texas to Florida , north to Michigan and Massachusetts ), southern Mexico ( Chiapas , Veracruz ), West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ), Central America, South America (from Guyana to Argentina) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Echinodorus cordifolius, the spade-leaf sword or creeping burhead, is a species of aquatic plants in the Alismatales. It is native to Mexico , the West Indies , Central America , South America (as far south as Paraguay ) and the southeastern United States ( Texas to Florida and as far north as Iowa ).
Propagation is by division or by adventitious new plants developing on submerged flowering stems. The larger species make magnificent specimen plants for the larger aquarium, though they may form aerial leaves in good conditions. If the inflorescence forms submersed, small plantlets will form instead of flowers. If grown emersed and kept humid ...
Koanophyllon villosum, the Florida Keys thoroughwort, [2] or abre camino, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It grows in southern Florida , Cuba , the Bahamas , Hispaniola , Jamaica , and the Islas de la Bahía (part of Honduras).
Asclepias fascicularis is a flowering perennial herb sending up many thin, erect stems and bearing distinctive long pointed leaves which are very narrow and often whorled about the stem, giving the plant its common names. [2] [3] It blooms in clusters of lavender, pale pink, purple, white, to greenish shades of flowers. [3]
Desmodium paniculatum, the panicled-leaf ticktrefoil, narrow-leaf tick-trefoil or panicled tickclover, is a perennial herb in the pea family, Fabaceae.Belonging to a nearly cosmopolitan genus, the panicled-leaf ticktrefoil is a common native to Eastern North America, ranging from Quebec to Florida and as far West as Texas, Nebraska, and Ontario.
The Mauna Kea silversword is an erect, single-stemmed and monocarpic or rarely branched and polycarpic basally woody herb, producing a globe-shaped cluster of thick, spirally arranged, sword-shaped silvery-green floccose-sericeous, linear-ligulate to linear-lanceolate leaves growing in a rosette.
Cephalanthera longifolia, the narrow-leaved helleborine, [3] sword-leaved helleborine or long-leaved helleborine, is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is native to light woodland, and widespread across Europe , Asia and North Africa from Ireland and Morocco to China .