Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ludwigia peploides subsp. montevidensis
Common name
Water primrose, Clove-strip
Family
Onagraceae
Where found
Mud and shallow water. Coast, ranges, ACT, and the Albury district. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Perennial herb, prostrate or sprawling, rooting at the nodes or floating, with branches to 2m long. Flowering stems floating or more or less erect. Stems often hairy. Creeping stems fleshy; floating stems spongy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 1-10 cm long, 3-30 mm wide, hairless at first, becoming hairy at flowering time, margins entire, tips mucronate. Flowers with 5 yellow petals, each 7–24 mm long, often falling soon after opening. Flowers single. Flowers Summer to Autumn. Seed cases cylindrical, somewhat hairy, 10-ribbed, thick-walled, 10–30 mm long, 2–4 mm in diameter.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Uncertain Status (native or naturalised) in Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ludwigia~peploides (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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