Elatine gratioloides
Photo: Matt Salmond
- Scientific Name
- Elatine gratioloides
- Origin
- New Zealand
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- Cunn
- Presence
- North, South and Stewart Islands
- Habitat
- Shallow water in lakes and river margins
- Temperature (°C)
- up to 28
- pH range
- 6.5 - 7.2
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Height
- 200mm
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Notes
- Shallow margins of large lakes throughout NZ a creeping plant that forms a low turf that may grow up to 20cm tall.
- Propagation
- Stem cuttings and seed
- Features
- Creeping perennial, low growing herb, with variable form/size in different habitats. Stems are thick/fleshy, root at the nodes and are usually 1 to 2 cm long if emergent but may grow to 20 cm long when submerged in static water. Leaves are opposite, 2 to 16 mm long, 5 mm wide, ovate to elliptic in shape, bright green and fleshy with short petioles. Flowers have 3 petals and sepal, are inconspicuous, solitary, sessile occuring alternately up the stem in the axils of leaves.
- Source
- TIFBIS