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Mosquito Fern
Azolla filiculoides
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Mosquito Fern (Azolla filiculoides) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Azolla filiculoides (Water Fern) is a species of Azolla, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Americas as well as most of the old world including Asia and Australia. It is a floating aquatic fern, with very fast growth, capable of spreading over lake surfaces to give complete coverage of the water in only a few months. Each individual plant is 1-2 centimeter across, green tinged pink, orange or red at the edges, branching freely, and breaking into smaller sections as it grows. It is not tolerant of cold temperatures, and in temperate regions it largely dies back in winter, surviving by means of submerged buds. Like other species of Azolla, it can fix nitrogen from the air.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Fern

Size
Size
2.4 in tall

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Ease of Care
Ease of Care
Moderately Easy

Common uses
Common uses
Bogs and Ponds

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
4*, 5*, 6*, 7*, 8*, 9*, 10, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24*

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Ponds, slow streams, wet ditches

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 4.7" - 59.9", Summer Precipitation: 0.15" - 2.23", Coldest Month: 28.5" - 56.3", Hottest Month: 59.6" - 83.8", Humidity: 0.18" - 37.62", Elevation: -11" - 7097"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Fern Azolla, Pacific Azolla, Pacific Mosquitofern


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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