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Myriophyllum alterniflorum
Also called Alternate-flowered water milfoil, Alternate Water-milfoil, Slender water milfoil, Alternate Leaved Water Milfoil, Loose Flowered Water Milfoil
Alternateflower watermilfoil is a submerged aquatic plant that grows in shallow, slow-moving fresh or brackish water, with flowering stems reaching the surface. It needs still or gently flowing water and sandy or muddy bottoms to thrive.
Myriophyllum alterniflorum, known as alternate water-milfoil or alternateflower watermilfoil, is a species of water-milfoil. It is native to Europe and Asia, has been introduced to North America and inhabits aquatic habitat, such as ponds and streams.
M. alterniflorum is found in more shallow areas in bodies of water (e.g., rivers and lakes), in order for these plants to survive in these areas the water needs to be slow moving. The preferred type of water tends to be fresh or even brackish water (i.e., salt and freshwater mixed together). These plants tend to be cultivated in more sandy and mucky types of environments, due to the pH preference being 5.4–11 pH level. This is considered to be an alkaline environment, where the plant tends to thrive best in.
Parrot feather watermilfoil · Upright Water Milfoil · Western watermilfoil · Myriophyllum implicatum · Myriophyllum indicum · Cutleaf watermilfoil · Red Stemmed Parrot's Feather · Shortspike watermilfoil · Amphibious Water Milfoil · Spiked Water-milfoil · Myriophyllum variifolium · Whorl-leaf watermilfoil
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myriophyllum alterniflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
