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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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2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophila_costata

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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