Myriophyllum verrucosum

Red Water-milfoil at Gordon, ACT

Request use of media

Identification history

	Myriophyllum verrucosum	21 Feb 2017	BettyDonWood
	Myriophyllum verrucosum	21 Feb 2017	michaelb

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

Significant sighting

MichaelMulvaney noted:

21 Feb 2017

Red Water-milfoil is a widespread species across mainland Australia, but its current ACT population seems to be less that 250 plants. Since 1985 it has only been recorded at 6 locations.

User's notes

In the Murrumbudgee River and upstream of Point Hut Crossing.

2 comments

michaelb wrote:

22 Feb 2017

Now is a good time to see this plant. With the dry summer the Murrumbidgee River is now quite low. It is an aquatic plant which is mostly greenish when submerged, but dries out with a red colour when exposed to the air, just as in the photograph.

michaelb wrote:

9 Mar 2017

Myriophyllum verrucosum had been under-reported due to its inconspicuous nature and was on the Rare Plant list. As a consequence of Michael Mulvaney raising awareness of the significance of this sighting a survey of several sections the river was made. With the river being so low this season the plant was now easily visible. It was found to be actually quite common. See
http://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/3241
So Myriophyllum verrucosum will be removed from the Rare Plant list. This is a good example of the value of Canberra Nature Map.

Please Login or Register to comment.