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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Sparganiaceae
Sparganium angustifolium Michx.
narrow-leaved bur-reed
Sparganium: ancient name, probably sparganon for "a band," referring to ribbon-like leaves
angustifolium: Latin for "narrow leaf"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | floating, perennial aquatic with long stems |
| Flower: | female flower green to white, 3-parted, inflorescence round heads on an unbranched stalk |
| Fruit: | nutlets with the straight beak shorter than the body  , in bur-like heads |
| Leaf: | rounded at the back, not keeled, upper leaves dilated at the base |
| Habitat: | sun; wet; deep water, shallows; in muddy soil |
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