Water-Milfoil Family:-

Water-Milfoil Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Water Fern to Yew Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Alternate Water-Milfoil

(Slender Water-milfoil, Alternate-flowered Water-milfoil, Water Milfoil)

Myriophyllum alterniflorum

June-September

This submerged aquatic perennial occurs in both standing and flowing waters, including rapidly flowing, peaty streams and rivers in which few other macrophytes grow. In Scotland and Ireland it occurs in a wide range of habitats (including, occasionally, highly calcareous sites) but in S.E. England it is confined to acidic, mesotrophic or oligotrophic waters. 0-780 m (Lochan an Tairbh-uisge, Mid Perth).

Spiked Water-Milfoil

Myriophyllum spicatum

June-September

This species grows in a wide range of meso-eutrophic or eutrophic and often calcareous waters. These include lakes, ponds, rivers, canals and ditches. It may persist in managed ditches and rivers and colonises newly flooded mineral workings. It also grows in slightly brackish sites. 0-390 m (Drumore Loch, E. Perth).

Female Flowers in August

Spent Male Flowers in August

Foliage in August

Form in August

Female Flowers with Female Flower Buds above in August

Male Flowers in August

Whorled Water-Milfoil

Myriophyllum verticillatum

July-August

It is a robust, perennial plant of clear or slightly turbid, still or slowly flowing calcareous water in lakes, streams, canals and ditches. It occurs over both peaty and inorganic substrates. It flowers and sets seed, and also perennates by specialised turions which are produced in the leaf axils. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form