| Limosella aquatica L. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Scrophulariaceae | ||
| Common name | mudwort | ||
| Description | Glabrous, small plant, sometimes submerged, with runners producing rosettes at nodes; upper leaves dark green, elliptical, with petioles much longer than blade, the lower subulate; calyx longer than corolla tube; corolla white or purplish, with triangular acute lobes, each with few long hairs; capsule round to elliptical. | ||
| Ecology | Wet mud. Described from northern Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.