Callitriche marginata |
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wing water-starwort |
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Stem | and leaf scales present. |
Leaves | connate at base, narrowly spatulate, 3.5–7.1(–7.2) × 0.7–1.4 mm, 1+-veined. |
Inflorescences | bracts absent. |
Pedicels | 1.2–3.3 mm in fruit. |
Flowers | usually 1 pistillate and 1 staminate in each axil, sometimes 1 or 2 axils with 2 pistillate, rarely solitary; styles sharply deflexed; pollen yellow. |
Schizocarps | 0.7–0.9 × 1.1–1.4 mm, shorter than wide; mericarps maroon or white, not swollen, winged throughout, wings straight, 0.1–0.2 mm wide. |
2n | = 20. |
Callitriche marginata |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Aug. |
Habitat | Lakes, reservoirs, floodplain pools, streams, vernal pools. |
Elevation | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; BC; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | Callitriche marginata is known throughout the California floristic province northward to southeastern British Columbia. There are no records from Washington State and British Columbia; occurrences may be remnants of a previously more widespread population (M. Miller 2001). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 52. |
Parent taxa | Plantaginaceae > Callitriche |
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Synonyms | C. sepulta |
Name authority | Torrey: in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. 4(5): 135. (1857) |
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