''Baldellia ranunculoides'', the lesser water-plantain,
is a species of
flowering plant in the family
Alismataceae.
Synonyms
Alisma ranunculoides, Echinodorus ranunculoides, Sagittaria ranunculodes
Description
''Baldellia ranunculoides'' is an
aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater). They are also referred to as hydrophytes or macrophytes to distinguish them from algae and other microphytes. A macrophyte is a plant that ...
which produced erect flowering stems that rise up to above the water surface.
Each flower stalk bears one or two
umbels of up to five
flowers each, and often only a single flower. Each flower is in diameter, and has three petals.
When not in flower, ''B. ranunculoides'' can be mistaken for lesser spearwort, ''
Ranunculus flammula
''Ranunculus flammula'', the lesser spearwort, greater creeping spearwort or banewort, is a species of perennial herbaceous plants in the genus ''Ranunculus'' (buttercup), growing in damp places throughout the Boreal Kingdom. It flowers June/Jul ...
'', which grows in similar locations.
Distribution
''Baldellia ranunculoides'' is found along the Atlantic and Baltic coast of western and northern
Europe, and along the
Mediterranean coasts of southern
Europe,
Turkey and
North Africa.
Recently found in eastern Newfoundland, Bristol's Hope barachois, Avalon Peninsula, the only location in North America. May have been introduced by a float (Sarracenia magazine, Newfoundland and Labrador Wildflower Society.
References
External links
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Alismataceae
Flora of Europe
Flora of North Africa
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Freshwater plants
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