Mazus miquelii Makino

Locations ofMazus miquelii Makino in Virginia

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Detail

Family
Mazaceae
Botanical Name
Mazus miquelii Makino
Common Name
Creeping Mazus, Miquel's Mazus
Synonym(s)
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
in Taxa Not Treated: Waifs
Comments
The identification, nomenclature, and distribution of this species in North America is discussed in Castanea 83(2):216-223 (2018). Found in 1975 by T. Bradley escaping from a lawn area (where growing aggressively) into an alluvial forest, where known to be present at least five years. Recently documented by Maeve Coker from two Middle Peninsula counties.
Habitat
A cultivated escape, rare but more or less naturalized where found; lawns, roadsides, and alluvial forest.
Native Status
Introduced

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