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Magnoliopsida
Hygrophila costata Nees & T. Nees
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pubescens: pubescent, with soft short hairs
DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Global Range: 0-1000 m.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Widespread throughout Central and South America.
Glush weed (aka gulf swampweed), or yerba de hicotea is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil, and usually grows from southern Mexico to Argentina. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. In addition, H. costata is an invasive and dominating species in several parts of the world included Australia because this plant is usually like a freshwater aquarium plant.
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Erect or scrambling, much-branched annual herb, up to c. 1m tall. Stems with glossy white hairs and scattered stalked glands. Leaves opposite, ovate, 8-25 cm, almost hairless above, hairy below; petiole up to 7 cm long; margin entire or slightly crenate. Flowers in a open branched inflorescence 10-40 cm long. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip white to mauve,12-20 mm long, finely hairy on the outside; lower lip pale mauve to violet or purple, 3-lobed, 7-15 mm long, with long stiff hairs in the middle. Capsule 10-15 mm long, finely glandular-hairy.