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#1 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 03:38 PM

I'm looking for outside advice as to what is the species in the attached photo. It's a common emergent plant on the edge of channels in small and medium sized streams in north 'bama. This photo was taken along the Flint River east of Huntsville, AL. Thanks... it's a major hiding site for juvenile darters and adult snubnoses.
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Posted 19 June 2011 - 04:18 PM

Looks like water willow to me, very common up this way.

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 04:27 PM

Could be a spur throat grasshopper on the leaf, i can't zoom in enough to tell.

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 04:40 PM

I think Matt's right, Justicia americana (American water-willow) is the certain bet. I didn't want to take that as certain without a second opinion, for which I thank you.

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Posted 19 June 2011 - 09:54 PM

That's an alsatian flea on the grasshopper's back. Nasty transplants.

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 08:02 AM

Definately Justicia. Was this a trick question Bruce?

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 09:12 AM

No, only to myself.

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 11:43 AM

Maybe Bruce's confidence is still a bit shaky after the golden shiner vs shad ID thing a couple weeks ago. |;>)

Justicia seems to be an important feature of Cape Fear shiner habitat too (along with riverweed Podostemum).

Definately Justicia. Was this a trick question Bruce?


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Posted 08 August 2011 - 09:32 AM

Water Willow is what i have always been told. Great plant, your picture shows those wonderful little Iris like flowers. It is taking over the cement pond's graveled shallows. Excellent plant, i like to see it growing on those gravel bars.




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