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Spiked Water Milfoil Care

myriophyllum spicatum

Other names: Eurasian Watermilfoil

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What is the plant

Eurasian watermilfoil has slender stems up to 250 centimetres .The submerged leaves (usually between 15โ€“35 mm long) are borne in pinnate whorls of four, with numerous thread-like leaflets roughly 4โ€“13 mm long. Plants are monoecious with flowers produced in the leaf axils (male above, female below) on a spike 5โ€“15 cm long held vertically above the water surface, each flower is inconspicuous, orange-red, 4โ€“6 mm long. Eurasian water milfoil has 12- 21 pairs of leaflets while northern watermilfoil M. sibiricum only has 5โ€“9 pairs. The two can hybridize and the resulting hybrid plants can cause taxonomic confusion as leaf characters are intermediate and can overlap with parent species.

Humidity

Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Lighting

Full Sun

Hardiness zone

Hardiness zone

5 - 9

Difficulty

Difficulty

Easy

Toxicity

Toxicity

Poisonous

Invasive

Invasive

Weed

How to Care for the Plant

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