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mosquito fern - small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern Europe

Azolla caroliniana, Carolina pond fern, floating fern

aquatic fern, water fern - ferns that grow in water

Azolla, genus Azolla - a genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae

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Br., an Old World mosquito fern, was found to be naturalized in waterways of southern Florida near Jupiter in May 2007 (Bodle 2008).

Native North American Azolla weevil, Stenopelmus rufinasus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), uses the invasive old world Azolla pinnata as a host plant

Those experiments determined that the Australian weevil, already successfully established in South Africa, won't eat benign North American plants like mosquito fern, Azolla caroliniana, or water clover, Marsilea vestita.

Attack on Giant Salvinia. (Cover Story)

The following families of this order, treated in this paper, are Aspleniaceae (spleenworts), Azollaceae (mosquito ferns), Blechnaceae (chain ferns), and Dennstaedtiaceae (bracken and hay-scented ferns).

PTERIDOPHYTES OF NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT HIGHLANDS III: OPHIOGLOSSALES AND POLYPODIALES (Aspleniaceae to Dennstaedtiaceae)

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