Limosella lineata
Endemic
Mudwort
- Scientific Name
- Limosella lineata
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- Gluck
- Presence
- North and South Island
- Habitat
- Lowland and coastal freshwaters, dune hoolws, stream and lake margins
- Temperature (°C)
- up to 28
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Propagation
- Seeds and vegetative fragments
- Features
- A small herb that spreads by stolons, on which the leaves occur in clusters of 5 to 10. The leaves are dark green, linear to narrow and spathulate, and ca 20 to 30 m long. The flowers are clustered at the leaf bases, small (2 to 3 mm diameter) and white.
- Source
- TIFBIS