Freshwater
Commen water-starwort
Callitriche stagnalis
Plantaginaceae
Facts
Care
We have no care for this plant yet. If you know how it thrives, you can suggest it.
Range
NativeIntroduced
Lives wild in Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, and 26 more countries.
Introduced to Australia, Canada, Chile, Falkland Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and United States.
More about the species
Description
Callitriche stagnalis is a perennial aquatic vascular plant species. Also known as pond water-starwort, C. stagnalis, may thrive in a variety of aquatic and subaquatic habitats, specially those exhibiting slowly moving to non-moving water. Although C. stagnalis does not pose a threat to humans, its reproductive rate may pose a threat to native vegetation in areas where it has been introduced, as the resulting dense vegetative mats frequently out-compete native species.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Callitriche aestivalis
- Callitriche dioica
- Callitriche minor
- Stellaria stagnalis
- Stellina stagnalis
In other languages
- Dikevasshår
- Dikeslånke
- Ojavesitähti
- Common Water-Starwort, Pond water starwort, Pond water-starwort
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