Limosella aquatica, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 204

1. L. aquatica L. , Sp. Pl. 631 (1753).

Annual, sometimes perennating by stolons. Summer leaves with linear-oblong to elliptic-spathulate lamina 8-20 x 2-6(-10) mm and petiole 20-120 mm, usually preceded by spring leaves with very narrow lamina or reduced to linear-subulate phyllodes. Pedicels 3- 20(-30) mm, erect in flower, usually deflexed in fruit. Corolla 3 x 2 mm, white, the lobes variably tinged or striped with pinkishpurple; tube about equalling lobes and shorter than calyx. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid (2-2J times as long as wide). In = 40. Ditches, lake-shores and places subject to periodical flooding. M ost o f Europe except the Mediterranean region, but rare and local in many districts. Au Be Br Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hs Hu Is It Ju Lu No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.