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Botanical Illustration: Aquatic Plants: Water Milfoil Illustrated:


Water Milfoil (Myriophyllum aquaticum), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About Water Milfoil (watermilfoil):
Water milfoil is a perennial submersed aquatic plant also referred to as parrot feather. It is a vascular dicot. It is not native to the United States, having been introduced from South America in the 1800s.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons)
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Haloragidaceae
Genus: Myriophyllum
Species: Myriophyllum aquaticum

More information about Water Milfoil:
Wikipedia: Parrot Feather
Non-Native Freshwater Plants: Parrotfeather





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