Specimen Information

Hydrilla verticillata verticillata
Hydrilla verticillata verticillata
(whorled hydrilla)
Plants
Exotic

Specimen ID887736
GroupPlants
GenusHydrilla
Speciesverticillata
Subspeciesverticillata
Common Namewhorled hydrilla
StateGA
CountyHenry
LocalityLong Branch Reservoir
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameUpper Ocmulgee
HUC8 Number03070103
HUC10 NameUpper Towaliga River
HUC10 Number0307010311
HUC12 NameTroublesome Creek-Towaliga River
HUC12 Number030701031102
Map
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Collection Year2008
Year AccuracyActual
Potential Pathwayhitch hiker on small watercraft
Statusestablished
Reference 1
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.
Reference 2
Ref. Number:28136
Author:Morgan, J.R.
Date:2013
Title:Novel methods for detection and management of the epiphytic cyanobacterium (order Stigonematales) on Hydrilla verticillata
Publisher:University of Georgia
Pages:71 pp.
CommentsDiscovered in 2008, but not identified until 2010.
Record TypeLiterature
Earliest Recordcounty
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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