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This species is accepted, and its native range is W. Canada to NW. U.S.A., Central & E. Canada to Central & E. U.S.A.
A specimen from Kew's Herbarium

Native to:

Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Ceratophyllum echinatum A.Gray appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Oct 1, 1983 [Spruce, R.] [1583], Brazil Ceratophyllum submersum var. echinatum K000220417 Unknown type material
Oct 1, 1983 [Spruce, R.] [[1619]], Brazil Ceratophyllum submersum var. echinatum K000220418

First published in Manual: 401 (1848)

Accepted by

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997). Flora of North America North of Mexico 3: 1-590. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Szalontai, B. & al. (2018). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Ceratophyllum L. taxa: a new perspective Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 188: 161-172.

Not accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Ceratophyllum muricatum subsp. australe.]
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Ceratophyllum muricatum subsp. australe.]

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997). Flora of North America North of Mexico 3: 1-590. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0