Carmelita Ji,
I missed replying to this post.
Thanks for all the links and additional information.
Regards,
Aarti

On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 3:06:47 PM UTC+4, carmelita wrote:
>
> Thank you for the additional and most excellent photo. 
>
> There are several scientific papers that explain the difficulty in 
> differentiating between Ludiwigia grandiflora and L. hexipetala. 
> One would need to measure the petal length, the sepal length and look at 
> the chromosomes. 
> One a hexaploid and one is a decaploid.
> http://www.guynesom.com/Ludwigiagrandiflora.pdf
>
> To add to the confusion, there are also naturally-occurring hybrids of the 
> two. 
>
> This link leads to an explanation of how closely we must look to identify 
> Ludiwigia while in the field:
>
> https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/files/caip/pdfs/LudwigiaIDGuide.pdf
>
> On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 12:06:25 AM UTC-5, Aarti S. Khale wrote:
>>
>> Seen near a water body in Atlanta during my visit in Oct,18.
>> For Species id please.
>> Aarti
>>
>

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