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Worm Weed

Dumontia contorta

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 239, February 176, March 276, April 434, May 626, June 683, July 731, August 628, September 461, October 344, November 188, December 147.
United States6,725
Alaska4,934
Maine1,017
New Hampshire614
Canada277
New Brunswick127
Massachusetts109
Quebec90
Nova Scotia45
United Kingdom26

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
Phylumred algae · Rhodophyta
ClassFlorideophycean algae · Florideophyceae
OrderGigartinales
FamilyDumontiaceae
GenusDumontia

Sources

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