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Myriophyllum variifolium is a submerged aquatic water milfoil native to eastern and southeastern Australia and Tasmania, growing in shallow still or slow-moving water. It is a plant of ponds and streams rather than a garden or houseplant.
Myriophyllum variifolium is a species of water milfoil native to eastern Australia where it grows in aquatic habitat such as ponds and streams.
Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species in 1840, from material collected in the Lachlan River, as well as Tasmania. The Tasmanian material resembled the description more closely, and the New South Wales material has been separated as a different species, hence the original Tasmanian material was made the neolectotype.
Alternateflower watermilfoil · 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 · Whorl-leaf watermilfoil
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myriophyllum variifolium 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.
