Plantaginaceae
Various-leaved water-starwort
Callitriche platycarpa
Also known as Water starwort, Callitriche heterophylla, Different-leaved water-starwort, Callitriche platycarpa f. fluctuans
Native Plants · Aquatic Plant · Water Starwort · Pond Plant · Freshwater · Oxygenator · Wildlife Pond · European Native · Semi-Aquatic · Stream Plant
Various-leaved water-starwort is a fully aquatic or semi-aquatic plant found in slow-moving and still freshwater bodies across Europe and North Africa. It requires a clean, cool freshwater environment and is best suited for wildlife ponds or aquatic restoration projects rather than typical home water gardens. It plays an ecological role in oxygenating water and providing habitat for aquatic invertebrates.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Maintain in standing or slow-moving freshwater at all times · Fully aquatic; keep submerged or at water surface continuously
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand North, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain
Sources: trefle, usda
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