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Plants in Mumford Cove Finally Identified

Sunday, August 31, 2003

The milfoil sample taken from Mumford Cove by Roberta Hill, who will be in charge of the Little Sebago baseline plant survey, has been identified as a hybrid between variable milfoil
(Myriophyllum heterophyllum) and another milfoil species not native to
Maine, Myriophyllum pinnatum. According to Michael Moody, UConn has tested
plants, assumed to be variable milfoil, from seven Maine lakes including
Sebago Lake, and the hybrid milfoil is the first of its kind to be found in
Maine.

This hybrid has been identified in several Connecticut lakes and it is
thought to be as invasive, if not more invasive given the right
environmental conditions, than variable milfoil.

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