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§1 Plant

Proserpinaca palustris L. var. crebra Fernald & Grisc.

vernacular marsh mermaidweed — variety · Haloragaceae


USDA
PRPAC
GBIF
3709771
Rank
variety
marsh mermaidweed (Proserpinaca palustris var. crebra)
Platephotograph · Jay HornCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Haloragaceae R. Br.
Genus
Proserpinaca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 126 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 126 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 126 counties across 14 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 20 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 N
Maine view state ↗ 12 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 11 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 N
New York view state ↗ 9 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 N
Vermont view state ↗ 4 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 11 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PRPAC ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3709771 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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