The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·165760SpeciesPlantae2,350 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›dogwoods, hydrangeas, and allies
  6. ›tupelo family
  7. ›Nyssa
Water Tupelo
Plate 1 of 10. (c) Christopher David Benda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Christopher David Benda · via iNaturalist

Water Tupelo

Nyssa aquatica

Nyssa aquatica, commonly called the water tupelo, cottongum, wild olive, large tupelo, sourgum, tupelo-gum, or water-gum, is a large, long-lived tree in the tupelo genus (Nyssa) that grows in swamps and floodplains in the Southeastern United States.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the old herbals & bestiaries

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Nyssa aquatica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 165760.