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Aquatic with submersed, emersed, and floating leaves; Forb
Annual/Perennial
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon in Piedmont & Mountains)

Look for it in pools, slow-moving streams, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple - dimorphic
Opposite. Floating rosettes of spatulate leaves & submersed linear leaves

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Unisexual
Sepals absent
Petals absent
1 stamen in staminate flowers
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Callitriche heterophylla var. heterophylla FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Callitriche heterophylla ssp. heterophylla FAMILY Callitrichaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 109-01-001:
Callitriche heterophylla FAMILY Callitrichaceae

COMMON NAME:
Waterstar, Common Water-starwort

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Keith Bradley kab_c_heterophylla_4967

April Richland County SC

Congaree National Park

Floating & upper leaves spatulate or obovate; submersed or lower leaves linear, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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