PLANTS Profile for Isoetes prototypus (spike quillwort)

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PLANTS Profile

Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton
spike quillwort

Symbol:

ISPR

Group:

Quillwort

Family:

Isoetaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Graminoid

Native Status:

L48		N
CAN		N

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Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton

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Distribution:
Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton


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USA (ME, NH), CAN (NB, NS)

Related Taxa:
Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton

View 1 genera in Isoetaceae, 50 species in Isoetes

Classification:
Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Division	Lycopodiophyta – Lycopods
Class	Lycopodiopsida
Order	Isoetales
Family	Isoetaceae – Quillwort family
Genus	Isoetes L. – quillwort
Species	Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton – spike quillwort

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Maine:
prototype quillwort		Threatened

More Accounts and Images:
Isoetes prototypus D.M. Britton

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 503215.

Time Generated: 06/18/2013 07:01 PM CDT