Vascular Plants of Vermont

Isoetes lacustris (lake quillwort or Merlin's grass) is a boreal quillwort native on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean. In Europe, it is distributed from Poland west to northeastern France, throughout Scandinavia, the west and north of the British Isles, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. In the North America, it occurs in the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and in Canada in provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It... less ↑

Isoetes engelmannii, commonly known as Engelmann's quillwort or Appalachian quillwort (not to be confused with the newly described Isoetes appalachiana), is an aquatic pteridophyte and is the most widely distributed species of its genus in eastern North America. Its range extends from Ontario in the north, south to Florida and west Arkansas and Missouri.It can be found from April to October in temporary pools, bogs, marshes, stream edges, swamps and along wet roadsides. less ↑