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Callitriche palustris
Callitriche palustris, the vernal water-starwort, narrow-fruited water-starwort, or spiny water starwort, is a species of aquatic plants. It is the type species of its genus.
It is native to temperate and subtropical North America and Eurasia, as well as Sumatra and Borneo.
8 branches of this group, most-observed first

Pond water-starwort
speciesCallitriche stagnalis

Narrow-fruited Water-starwort
speciesCallitriche palustris

long-styled water-starwort
speciesCallitriche cophocarpa

Blunt-fruited Water-starwort
speciesCallitriche obtusangula

Pedunculate Water-starwort
speciesCallitriche brutia

Intermediate Water-Starwort
speciesCallitriche hamulata

Various-leaved Water-starwort
speciesCallitriche platycarpa

Hybrid water-starwort
hybridCallitriche × vigens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1642302.