Cabomba caroliniana

Carolina fanwort

Family: Cabombaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Carolina fanwort is a naturalized aquatic perennial found in the San Joaquin Valley in slow streams and ponds at sea level. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces white or cream-colored flowers with a yellow nectary base, creating delicate underwater blooms. Growing fully submersed with distinctive fan-shaped leaves, it forms intricate underwater vegetation with leaf blades 10 to 40 millimeters long and up to 60 millimeters wide. Its leaves vary between submersed and occasionally floating types, with submersed leaves being broadly deltate to kidney-shaped and floating leaves narrow and linear. The fruit is small, measuring 4 to 7 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Ponds, slow streams

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 0 m

Bioregions: SnJV

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