Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Coongie Lakes, SA

Common Name

Waterwort

Family

Elatinaceae

Notes

Annual forb, growing in water or mud. Stems prostrate, in mud, forming mats; in water, the branches sometimes erect. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2-1.6cm long, to 5mm wide (larger in submerged leaves), flat, hairless, with minute glands on the margins. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), with 3 white to pink petals, one flower at the base of each leaf pair. Rare SA.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 499

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elatine~gratioloides