Ludwigia hexapetala |
Ludwigia linearis |
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false loosestrife, large-flower primrose-willow, primrose willow, six petal water primrose, Uruguayan primrose-willow, water primrose |
narrowleaf primrose-willow |
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Habit | Herbs, subshrubs, or emergent aquatics, adventitious roots sometimes forming a thick mass 10–23 cm at submerged nodes, sometimes woody at base, white pneumatophores 5–10 cm often on submerged stems. | Herbs slender, usually with aerenchyma near base, forming stolons 10–30 cm, 0.8–2.5 mm thick. |
Stems | floating or creeping and ascending to erect, terete, 20–200(–400) cm, simple to densely branched apically, glabrous (floating) or sparsely to densely villous (emergent), sometimes villous only on inflorescence. |
erect, slightly ridged, often well branched, (22–)50–100(–145) cm, glabrous or sparsely to densely, minutely strigillose. |
Leaves | stipules ovate or deltate, 0.7–2 × 0.5–1.1 mm, not succulent, apex subacute, mucronate; petiole flattened, 0.5–2(–2.5) cm; blade narrowly oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or lanceolate to obovate or spatulate, (1.5–)4.2–10.7(–13.5) × (0.5–)0.8–3 cm, chartaceous, base cuneate or attenuate, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse, rounded or truncate, sometimes mucronate, surfaces not shiny, usually glabrous, sometimes villous on petiole and veins or throughout; bracts not reduced. |
alternate; stipules narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 0.15–0.3 × 0.05–0.15 mm; stolons: petiole attenuate, 0.2–0.5 cm, blade narrowly to very narrowly elliptic, 1–2.5 × 0.3–0.9 cm, surfaces glabrous or minutely strigillose; stems: subsessile, blade linear to elliptic-linear, 1.6–6(–8.5) × 0.1–0.4(–0.6) cm, base very narrowly cuneate, margins entire with obscure hydathodal glands, apex very narrowly acute, surfaces glabrous or sparsely to densely, minutely strigillose or puberulent; bracts not much reduced. |
Inflorescences | emergent stems sometimes in leafy racemes, sometimes reflexed, flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracteoles obovate to narrowly obovate, 1–1.8 × 0.7–0.8 mm, apex acute or acuminate, attached on distal 1/2 of pedicel or at ovary base. |
leafy racemes or spikes, flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracteoles deciduous, attached on pedicel near ovary base or to 4.5 mm distal to base, linear, 0.4–4(–7.5) × 0.1–0.3 mm. |
Flowers | sepals ovate-deltate or lanceolate-deltate, (8–)12–19 × 2–5 mm, chartaceous, margins entire, apex acuminate, surfaces ± densely villous; petals bright yellow, sometimes with orange base, fan-shaped, (15–)20–30 × (12–)16–25 mm, apex emarginate or mucronate; stamens 10(or 12), in 2 unequal series, yellow, filaments recurved, shorter ones (1.6–)2.3–5.2 mm, longer ones (3.1–)3.6–7.5 mm, anthers oblong, (1.2–)1.7–4 × 1–1.5 mm; ovary subcylindric, terete, 10–18 × 2–3 mm, apex ± broadened, glabrous or sparsely to densely villous; nectary disc slightly raised on ovary apex, yellowish green, 2–4 mm diam., lobed, glabrous or ringed with white hairs; style yellow, 6–10 mm, glabrous, stigma subcapitate-globose, 0.5–1.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm, often exserted beyond anthers. |
sepals ascending, green, lanceolate-deltate to narrowly so, 2.5–5(–5.5) × 1–3(–3.5) mm, margins entire, apex acuminate or elongate-acuminate to cuspidate, surfaces sparsely to densely strigillose; petals obovate to suborbiculate, 3–6 × (2–)2.5–5 mm, base attenuate, margins entire, apex obtuse; filaments white or cream, 1.1–2.2 mm, anthers lanceolate-oblong, 1–2 × 0.6–1 mm; pollen shed in tetrads; ovary cylindric (wider at apex), 2.5–4.5 ×1–2.5 mm, strigillose; nectary disc elevated (0.2–)0.3–0.6 mm on ovary apex, yellow, 1.3–2.5 mm diam., 4-lobed, margins glabrous or minutely strigillose; style yellowish green, (0.4–)0.7–1.5 mm, glabrous or densely strigillose on proximal part, stigma clavate to subcapitate, (0.6–)1–1.9 × 0.6–0.9 mm, shallowly 4-lobed, not exserted beyond anthers. |
Capsules | cylindric or subclavate, terete, sometimes curved, (12–)16–24(–30)× 2.5–4 mm, with thick woody walls, irregularly and tardily dehiscent, pedicel (9–)13–25(–85) mm. |
elongate-obpyramidal, obscurely 4-angled, often with central, longitudinal groove on each side, 5–10(–12) × 2–5.5 mm, hard-walled, dehiscent by apical ring, pedicel 0–3.5(–5) mm. |
Seeds | embedded in wedge-shaped piece of endocarp, 0.8–1 × 0.8–1 mm. |
light brown, oblong-elliptic,0.5–0.7 × 0.2–0.3 mm, surface cells oblong, elongate either parallel or transversely to seed length. |
2n | = 80. |
= 16. |
Ludwigia hexapetala |
Ludwigia linearis |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–late fall. | Flowering late Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Wet places, along slow-moving rivers, streams, canals, ditches, often growing into main channel as aquatic weed. | Drainage ditches, along river or stream banks, swales, edges of pocosins, sandy soil in wet meadows, brackish marshes, disturbed ground. |
Elevation | 0–200[–2600] m. (0–700[–8500] ft.) | 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; NY; OR; PA; SC; TN; WA; Central America (Costa Rica); South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) [Introduced in w Europe (Belgium, France, Spain)]
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AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Ludwigia hexapetala (2n = 80) was formerly included with L. grandiflora (2n = 48) in L. uruguayensis (Cambessèdes) H. Hara, and some authors (G. L. Nesom and J. T. Kartesz 2000) still consider them to be a single species. The small but consistent morphological differences and different ploidy levels argue for keeping them distinct at the species level. Fernald described Jussiaea michauxiana (1944), since he thought that J. grandiflora Michaux (1803) was a homonym (not J. grandiflora Ruíz & Pavon). However, it was later determined that the volume containing the Ruíz & Pavon name was published in 1830 (not 1802) making the name by Michaux valid and legitimate, and the name by Fernald an illegitimate substitution. Plants now known as Ludwigia hexapetala were included in the circumscription of L. uruguayensis (Cambessèdes) H. Hara (based on J. uruguayensis Cambessèdes) by P. H. Raven (1963[1964]) and P. A. Munz (1965). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ludwigia linearis is widespread in the southeastern United States, with a complex pattern of morphological variation, especially in stem pubescence, ranging from glabrous to densely strigillose, but without strong geographical separation (C. I. Peng 1989). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Onagraceae > subfam. Ludwigioideae > Ludwigia > sect. Jussiaea | Onagraceae > subfam. Ludwigioideae > Ludwigia > sect. Isnardia |
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Synonyms | Jussiaeahexapetala hooker, J. repens var. major, L. grandiflora subsp. hexapetala, L. grandiflora var. hexapetala, L. uruguayensis var. major | Isnardia linearis, L. angustifolia, L. linearis var. puberula |
Name authority | (Hooker & Arnott) Zardini, H. Y. Gu & P. H. Raven: Syst. Bot. 16: 243. (1991) | Walter: Fl. Carol., 89. (1788) |
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