Limosella
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Limosella is a genus of flowering plants known as mudworts. These are annual, largely aquatic plant
s, found in muddy areas worldwide.
Selected species:
Aquatic plant
Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments. They are also referred to as hydrophytes or aquatic macrophytes. These plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water's surface. Aquatic plants can only grow in water or in soil that is...
s, found in muddy areas worldwide.
Selected species:
- Limosella acaulisLimosella acaulisLimosella acaulis is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family known by the common name Owyhee mudwort. It is native to western North America from the Pacific Northwest to northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of muddy habitat next to water, such as pond edges. It is a fleshy...
- Owyhee mudwort - Limosella aquaticaLimosella aquaticaLimosella aquatica is a widespread species of flowering plant in the figwort family known by the common name water mudwort. It is native to much of the temperate world, where it grows in many types of wet habitat. It is semiaquatic, growing in moist land habitat such as meadows, in mud and wet sand...
- water mudwort - Limosella australis - Welsh mudwort
- Limosella capensis
- Limosella inflata
- Limosella longiflora
- Limosella major
- Limosella pubiflora - Chiricahua Mountain mudwort