| Author | Allioni | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the Piedmont only, but also rarely in the Mountains and Coastal Plain. First collected in NC in 1964 by Harry Ahles and Ernest Beal at a pond in South Raleigh (Wake County).
Native of Eurasia and Africa; in N.A. through much of eastern US. | |
| Abundance | Rare to uncommon, but likely overlooked. | |
| Habitat | Impoundments, small artificial ponds. | |
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| Identification | This species is very slender, suspended in the water column, the stem much branched and these looking bushy. Check the key in Weakley (2018) for details of how to tell it from other Najas species. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | OBL link |
| USACE-emp | OBL link |
