Callitriche heterophylla Pursh

Twoheaded water-starwort (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Callitriche

Characteristics

Monoecious aquatic herb with long ascending stems, little branched, often with floating rosettes. Lvs very variable but submerged lvs often linear-elliptic, 1-nerved, shallowly 2-toothed; aerial lvs usually obovate, 3-7-nerved; free veins 0; lvs of plants on mud oblong. Fls 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ together in each axil. Bracteoles white, conspicuous, persistent. Filaments to 4 mm long; anthers c. 0.2 × c. 0.3 mm. Styles 1-6 mm long, persistent or caducous. Fr. sessile, (0.6)-0.7-0.8-(1) mm long, suborbicular; mericarp faces convex; wing narrow, usually only at top of mericarp, sometimes 0; commissural groove very shallow and narrow.
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Much like no. 3 [Callitriche palustris L.], differing mainly in the frs, these ca 1 mm or a little less, nearly to fully as long as wide (not more than 0.1 mm longer than wide), often but not always a little wider above the middle than below, the margins rounded or obtuse or very shallowly and inconspicuously grooved between the carpels, not at all sharp-edged or winged; pit-like markings on the surface of the fr not obviously aligned in vertical rows. In quiet water throughout most of N. Amer., and also in S. Amer. (C. anceps Fernald, the rare, mainly boreal, wholly submersed phase)
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support aquatic
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.45
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 7-8
Soil humidity 8-9
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Soil acidity 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-11

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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Callitriche heterophylla world distribution map, present in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, France, Greenland, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Callitriche heterophylla threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:430004-1
WFO ID wfo-0000777434
COL ID 5WVPN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 771788
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Callitriche anceps Callitriche asagraei Callitriche bolanderi Callitriche brevifolia Callitriche tuerckheimii Callitriche heterophylla Callitriche heterophylla subsp. bolanderi Callitriche heterophylla var. bolanderi Callitriche heterophylla var. heterophylla Callitriche palustris var. bolanderi