Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Elatine gratioloides
Common name
Waterwort
Family
Elatinaceae
Where found
In or on the margins of still or slow-flowing water to about 40 cm deep. Widespread.
Notes
Annual herb. Stems prostrate in mud, rooting from the leaf nodes, forming mats to 2m in diameter. In water, the branches sometimes erect, to 0.4 m or more tall. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.2-1.6 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, margins entire and with minute glands, tips pointed to blunt. Flowers with 3 white to pink petals each about 1 mm long.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elatine~gratioloides (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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