ISOETES LACUSTRIS
Author:
Carl Linnaeus, 1757
Family:
ISOETACEAE
Origin:
Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Czechia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Netherlands, New Brunswick, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Poland, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tennessee, United States, Vermont, Virginia, West Siberia
Elevation:
Publisher:
L. (1753). In: Sp. Pl. 2: 1100.
Collection number:
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Thickness:
2,5 Centimetres
Height:
30 Centimetres
Propagate:
Spores
CITES:
Synonyms:
Calamaria lacustris Kuntze, 1891.
Juncus bufonius, Carl Linnaeus, 1757.
Isoetes macrospora Durieu.
Isoetes rossica Gand.
Isoetes hieroglyphica, A.A.Eaton.
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Isoetes lacustris var. stricta, Motelay & Vendryès
Isoetes moorei, Moore.
This member of the Isoetaceae family was given this name by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It is found from Canada, through Europe to northern Asia, growing in lakes with little nutrition from five centimetres to five meters debt. The caudex can grow to one and a half centimetre, the leaves to 40 centimetres length.
The genera name means 'all the same year round'. The species name; lacustris, from the Latin lacus; 'lake', and ustris; 'origin'. Also seen as member of the Juncaceae and Lycopodiaceae families.
Flower
No; Spores; White - Cream-Coloured
Soil
Sand
Water
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Sun
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