| Specimen ID | 887707 |
| Group | Plants |
| Genus | Hydrilla |
| Species | verticillata |
| Subspecies | verticillata |
| Common Name | whorled hydrilla |
| State | GA |
| County | Newton |
| Locality | Lake Varner [Lower Williams] |
| Mapping Accuracy | Accurate |
| HUC8 Name | Upper Ocmulgee |
| HUC8 Number | 03070103 |
| HUC10 Name | Upper Alcovy River |
| HUC10 Number | 0307010307 |
| HUC12 Name | Cornish Creek |
| HUC12 Number | 030701030708 |
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| Collection Year | 2007 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | hitch hiker on small watercraft |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 28128 |
| Author: | Tatum, C. |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Title: | Hydrilla horrors: Invasive plant causes bird deaths at lake |
| Publisher: | Newton Citizen |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 28131 |
| Author: | Wilde, S.B., R.S. Haynie, J.A. Herrin, M.W. Hook, J. Kupfer, and M.D. Netherland. |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Title: | Environmental factors influencing blooms of a neurotoxic Stigonematalan cyanobacterium responsible for avian vacuolar myelinopathy |
| Publisher: | Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Program |
| Pages: | 21 pp. |
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| Comments | Noticed about five years prior to news story, but Wilde et al. mention discovery in 2007. |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Earliest Record | county |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
