Mock Bishop's Weed

(Ptilimnium capillaceum)

 

Color Photograph: NRCS Plants Database, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Mock Bishop's Weed (Ptilimnium capillaceum)

Identification: Plant aquatic. Flowers white, in irregular umbels with the secondary clusters widely separated. Base of umbel with a series of threadlike, forked bracts. Stem hollow. Leaves threadlike and heavily forked. Plant 1 to 2 feet in height.

Distribution: Southern Illinois to southern New England, southward to Florida and Texas. Also found in the Great Plains.

Habitat: Mock Bishop's Weed is found in freshwater or brackish marshes.

Flowering period: July to October.

Mock Bishop's Weed (Ptilimnium capillaceum)

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The threadlike, forked leaves, and the threadlike, forked bracts at the base of the umbel are distinctive for this species.

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