Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Crassula > Crassula aquaticaCrassula aquatica (common pigmyweed; water pygmyweed)Synonyms: Bulliarda abyssinica; Bulliarda aquatica (homotypic); Bulliarda aquatica var. prostrata; Bulliarda borealis; Bulliarda linnaei; Bulliarda prostrata; Bulliarda schkuhrii; Bulliarda vaillantii (heterotypic); Crassula schkuhrii; Elatine tetrandra (heterotypic); Hydrophila aquatica (homotypic); Sedum bulliardi (heterotypic); Tillaea abyssinica; Tillaea angustifolia; Tillaea aquatica (heterotypic); Tillaea ascendens; Tillaea likiangensis; Tillaea prostrata; Tillaea simplex (heterotypic); Tillaea yunnanensis; Tillaeastrum aquaticum (homotypic) Crassula aquatica is a succulent plant known by the common names water pygmyweed, common pygmyweed and just pigmyweed. It is an annual plant of salt marshes, vernal pools, wetlands, and other fresh to brackish water bodies. It is at least partially aquatic, living in areas which are submersed much of the time. It also lives along muddy banks and in tidally-active areas of estuaries. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | Low |  | | Height [2] | 3.15 inches (.08 m) | | | Lifespan [2] | Annual | | Structure [4] | Herb | | | Light Preference [3] | Mostly Sunny | | Soil Acidity [3] | Moderate Acid | | Soil Fertility [3] | Intermediate | | Soil Moisture [3] | Wet |
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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 |
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Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
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Norwegian Sea Drainages |
Norway, Sweden |
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Polar Freshwaters |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 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) ♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 Ecoregions 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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