Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ceratophyllales > Ceratophyllaceae > Ceratophyllum > Ceratophyllum submersumCeratophyllum submersum (Soft Hornwort)Synonyms: Ceratophyllum aquaticum submersum; Ceratophyllum demersum submersum; Ceratophyllum demersum var. laeve; Ceratophyllum granulosum; Ceratophyllum inerme; Ceratophyllum laeve; Ceratophyllum muticum; Ceratophyllum submersum submersum; Ceratophyllum submersum var. granulosum; Ceratophyllum submersum var. haynaldianum (heterotypic); Ceratophyllum submersum var. inerme; Ceratophyllum verrucosum; Ceratophyllum verruculosum Ceratophyllum submersum, commonly known as the soft hornwort, is a species of Ceratophyllum. It is a submerged, free-floating aquatic plant. It has been reported from Europe, Central Asia, northern Africa, scattered places in tropical Africa, Turkey, Oman, Florida, and the Dominican Republic. |
| Leaf Type [1] | Evergreen | | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | | Structure [1] | Herb |  | | Light Preference [3] | Mostly Sunny | | Soil Acidity [3] | Neutral | | Soil Fertility [3] | Rich | | Soil Moisture [3] | Submerged |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food PlantsEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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