Crassula aquatica
Water Crassula ( Crassula aquatica )
The water - Crassula ( Crassula aquatica ) is a plant of the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ).
Description
Crassula aquatica is an annual herbaceous succulent plant. Your upright to upright - crawling drives are up to 10 centimeters long. The elliptical inverted lanceolate, acuminate to obtuse leaves reach a length of 3 to 6.5 millimeters.
From the nodes of shoots produced per a fourfold flower, sitting at a less than a millimeter long flower stalk. The 0.6 to 0.9 mm long and 0.7 to 0.8 mm wide sepals are triangular to blunt and occasionally occupied with black glandular dots. Your rhombic egg-shaped petals are about twice as long as the sepals and about 0.8 millimeters wide. The 0.8 -millimeter-long Nektarschüppchen are filiform - spatulate.
The seeds are oblong ellipsoid, longitudinally striped and tiny finely wrinkled.
Systematics and distribution
Crassula aquatica is widespread in northern and eastern Europe, northern Asia and North America. The plants grow more or less submerged in the mud of brackish water zone.
The first description was in 1753 as Tillaea aquatica by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum. Selmar Schönland ordered the type of the genus Crassula to 1891. A synonym is Tillaeastrum aquaticum (L.) Britton.