Skye Flora

Common Water-starwort


Callitriche stagnalis

 

Callitriche stagnalis

Photo © Carl Farmer
20 Sep 2001 Portree

Common in pools, ditches and on wet mud.

Top leaves c 1.5 cm

Skye ID: Leaf-blades of floating rosette almost circular.

Other features: Tiny flowers, without sepals or petals, but either 1 stamen or 2 styles, in the axils of the rosette leaves, followed by near-spherical fruit about 1.8 mm across.  Submerged leaves become more oval-bladed and long-stalked the further down you go, but never linear as in many Callitriche species.

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  Callitriche stagnalis

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 Aug 2002 Scorrybreac

 
     
     
  Callitriche stagnalis

Photo © Carl Farmer
13 Oct 2002 Portree

 

 
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