Few-Flowered Watermilfoil
Myriophyllum oliganthum
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Few-Flowered Watermilfoil
Identify Few-Flowered Watermilfoil by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Finely feathered submerged aquatic leaves, few flowers.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Haloragaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Few-Flowered Watermilfoil.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Myriophyllum oliganthum
- Genus
- Myriophyllum
- Family
- Haloragaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Ponds
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Haloragaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Few-Flowered Watermilfoil
Few-Flowered Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum oliganthum) belongs to the Haloragaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. It grows in ponds. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Haloragaceae
Watermilfoil Family
Few-Flowered Watermilfoil belongs to the Haloragaceae family.
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