| Lesser water-plantain | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Alismataceae |
| Genus: | Baldellia |
| Species: | B. ranunculoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Baldellia ranunculoides | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Baldellia ranunculoides, thelesser water-plantain,[3] is a species offlowering plant in the familyAlismataceae.
Alisma ranunculoides, Echinodorus ranunculoides, Sagittaria ranunculodes
Baldellia ranunculoides is anaquatic plant which produced erect flowering stems that rise up to 10 centimetres (4 in) above the water surface.[4] Each flower stalk bears one or twoumbels of up to fiveflowers each, and often only a single flower. Each flower is 10–15 millimetres (0.4–0.6 in) in diameter, and has three petals.[4] When not in flower,B. ranunculoides can be mistaken for lesser spearwort,Ranunculus flammula, which grows in similar locations.[4]
Baldellia ranunculoides is found along the Atlantic and Baltic coast of western and northernEurope, and along theMediterranean coasts of southernEurope,Turkey andNorth Africa.[5][6][7] Recently found in eastern Newfoundland, Bristol's Hope barachois, Avalon Peninsula, the only location in North America. May have been introduced by a float (Sarracenia magazine, Newfoundland and Labrador Wildflower Society.
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