''Callitriche verna'' is a submerged/floating-leaved aquatic
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in the family
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family, is a large, diverse family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as snapdragon and foxglove. It is unrelated to the banana-like fruit also called "plantain." In older cl ...
(though sometimes placed in its own family – Callitrichaceae). It is found in aquatic environments in North America.
[Correll, DS and HB Correll. 1975. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the Southwestern United States. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA]
Description
Lower, submerged leaves linear, 0.3–1 mm wide; 1-nerved; shallowly bidentate at apex; terminal leaves petiolate; narrowly oblate to spatulate.
Distribution and habitat
In quiet shallow water; distributed in North America, including Mexico.
References
verna
Freshwater plants
Plants described in 1755
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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