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§1 Plant
Azolla caroliniana Willd.
vernacular Carolina mosquitofern — species · Azollaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Azollaceae Wettst.
- Genus
- Azolla
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
County-level range
· 216 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 216 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Glades 12043
- Hamilton 12047
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jefferson 12065
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
Georgia view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 16 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Amherst 51009
- Bedford 51019
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Hanover 51085
- James City 51095
- King William 51101
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Rockbridge 51163
- Shenandoah 51171
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AZCA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2650105 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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