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Scientific name:

Myosoton aquaticum

Vernacular name:

Water Chickweed


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Water Chickweed

Scientific name: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench

Diagnostic features
Plant straggling, decumbent to ascending, to 1m, glabrous below, with abundant glandular hairs above.
Leaves ovate, cordate at base.
Petals longer than sepals.

Chromosome number: 2n=28.

Habitat
Native; marshes, ditches and banks of water-courses.

Distribution
Fairly common in England and Wales North to Durham, formerly South Scotland.

This species is keyed out from Page2118: Myosoton and other genera in the Text Key.

Myosoton aquaticum (Water Chickweed)
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