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Plantaginaceae
American shoreweed
Littorella uniflora
Also known as Littorella, Littorella lacustris var. hirsuta, Littorella lacustris, Littorella juncea
Native Plants · Aquatic · Shoreweed · Pond Plant · Bog Garden · Wetland · Marginal Plant · Perennial · European Native · Water Garden · Low-Growing
American shoreweed is an aquatic or semi-aquatic perennial best suited for pond margins, bog gardens, or shallow water features with soft, acidic water. It thrives in cool, wet conditions with partial shade and requires consistently saturated or submerged substrate to survive. This specialist plant is best kept outdoors in naturalistic water garden settings and is not suitable for typical home cultivation.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Maintain standing water or saturated substrate; never allow to dry out · Keep consistently wet or submerged at all times
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 4 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, North European Russi, Northwest European R
Sources: trefle
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