Najas flexilis

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Najas flexilis

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Hydrocharitaceae
Genus: Najas
Species:
N. flexilis
Binomial name
Najas flexilis
(
Willd.) Rostk. & Schmidt
Synonyms

Caulinia flexilis

Willd.

Najas flexilis is an aquatic annual plant native to parts of North America and Europe. It is native to northern and central Europe from Norway to Ireland to Switzerland, and from there across Russia (including Siberia). It is also considered native throughout most of Canada, and the northern United States in disjunct populations in southern California, Arizona, Missouri, South Carolina and Utah.[2][3] Its common names include slender naiad[1] and nodding waternymph.[4]

Najas flexilis inhabits shallow bodies of

Berne Convention
. The largest population is in Lake Sīveri in Latvia.

References

  1. ^ a b Maiz-Tome, L. (2016). "Najas flexilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T162310A78457107. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  2. ^ Biota of North America Program, Najas flexilis Image
  3. ^ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  4. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Najas flexilis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bottlieb Theophil Rostkovius & Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt. 1824. Flora Sedinensis 382, Najas flexilis
  6. ^ Carl Ludwig von Willdenow. 1801. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres depuis l'Avénement de Fréderic Guillaume II au Thrône 1798: 89, pl. 1, f. 19. 1798[1801].
  7. ISBN 0-486-20504-5
  8. ^ Reed, Denise, Wildlife of the Lunan Lochs, retrieved 2007-05-10
  9. ^ Thiry, Emmanuel (coordination); van de Weyer, Klaus (17 Feb 2005), Re-Establishment Plan for the Natura 2000 Species Najas flexilis in Poland (PDF), retrieved 2007-05-10
  10. ^ Jacobsson, Anders (2005), Sjönajas återfunnen i Södra Kärrlången. [Najas flexilis rediscovered in Södermanland, southeast Sweden.] (PDF), retrieved 2008-04-16

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