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Aquatic and Wetland Vascular Plants of the Northern Great Plains

Elatinaceae - The Waterwort Family

Small, usually freely branched annuals of shores, flats or shallow water. Leaves simple, opposite, entire or glandular-serrate, with small membranous stipules. Flowers axillary, 1-few per axil, small and nonshowy, perfect, regular, hypogynous; sepals and petals (2)3 or 5 (in those included here); stamens numbering the same or 2X the number of petals; styles 3 or 5, ovary 3- or 5-celled. Fruit a capsule; seeds few to many, pitted.

Lead	Characteristic	Go To
1	Plants glandular-pubescent; flowers 5-merous.	Genus Bergia
1	Plants glabrous; flowers (2)3-merous.	Genus Elatine

16. Elatinaceae, the Waterwort Family

1. Bergia L.

1. Bergia texana (Hook.) Walp.

2. Elatine L. -- Waterwort

1. Elatine triandra Schkuhr

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