Lobelia perpusilla
Endemic At risk nationally uncommon.
- Scientific Name
- Lobelia perpusilla
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- Hook. f.
- Presence
- North and South Island
- Habitat
- Lowland and upland on margins of water bodies, often submerged
- Temperature (°C)
- up to 28
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Propagation
- Seeds and vegetative fragments
- Features
- A creeping herb that forms a low turf when emersed, but erect leafy stems to 10 cm tall when submerged. Submerged leaves are narrow and toothed, up to 10 mm long. Flowers are white with 5 lobes, 8-10 mm long produced on emersed plants.
- Source
- TIFBIS
- Synonym
- Pratia perpusilla (Hook. f.) Hook. f.