World Species : Callitriche palustris (spiny waterstarwort; spring waterstarwort; vernal water starwort; vernal water-starwort; vernal waterstarwort)

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Callitriche palustris (spiny waterstarwort; spring waterstarwort; vernal water starwort; vernal water-starwort; vernal waterstarwort)

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Infraspecies

Callitriche palustris palustris
Callitriche palustris var. megalata
Callitriche palustris var. oryzetorum
Callitriche palustris var. strumosa

Attributes

Bloom Period ^[1]	Spring
Drought Tolerance ^[1]	None
Edible ^[2]	May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance ^[1]	High
Flower Type ^[2]	Monoecious
Frost Free Days ^[1]	90 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance ^[1]	Low
Fruit/Seed Begin ^[1]	Summer
Fruit/Seed End ^[1]	Fall
Growth Form ^[1]	Single Crown
Growth Period ^[1]	Spring, Summer, Fall
Growth Rate ^[1]	Rapid
Leaf Type ^[2]	Evergreen
Lifespan ^[2]	Perennial
Pollinators ^[2]	Water
Propagation ^[1]	Seed, Sprig
Root Depth ^[1]	8 inches (20 cm)
Seed Spread Rate ^[1]	Moderate
Seed Vigor ^[1]	Medium
Seeds Per ^[1]	999998 / lb (2204620 / kg)
Shape/Orientation ^[1]	Decumbent
Structure ^[4]	Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate ^[1]	Moderate

Flower Color ^[1]	Green
Foliage Color ^[1]	Green
Fruit Color ^[1]	Green

Height ^[1]	8 inches (0.2 m)

Hardiness Zone Minimum ^[1]	USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference ^[3]	Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity ^[3]	Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility ^[3]	Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture ^[3]	Submerged
Water Use ^[1]	Moderate

Screening - Summer ^[1]	Porous
Screening - Winter ^[1]	Porous

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Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Barents Sea Drainages	Finland, Norway, Russia, Svalbard	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc	France, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
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
Eastern Iberia	Andorra, France, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga	Finland, Russia	Palearctic	Large Lakes
Northern Baltic Drainages	Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Norwegian Sea Drainages	Norway, Sweden	Palearctic	Polar Freshwaters
Upper Danube	Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Volga - Ural	Kazakhstan, Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Western Iberia	Portugal, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers

Protected Areas

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External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ ²Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ ³Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 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