Freshwater
Lake quillwort
Isoetes lacustris
Isoetaceae
Facts
Care
We have no care for this plant yet. If you know how it thrives, you can suggest it.
Range
Native
Lives wild in Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, and 13 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Isoetes lacustris, the lake quillwort or Merlin's grass, is a boreal quillwort native on both sides of the northern Atlantic Ocean. In Europe, it is distributed from Poland west to northeastern France, throughout Scandinavia, the west and north of the British Isles, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Further south, isolated populations occur in the glacial lakes of the Pirin mountain range in Bulgaria.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Calamaria lacustris
- Isoetes hieroglyphica
- Isoetes moorei
- Isoetes tenella
In other languages
- Sortgrøn brasenføde
- Tummalahnanruoho
Articles
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