Ludwigia palustris
Also known as: Dantia palustris, Isnardia ascendens, Isnardia nitida, Isnardia palustris, Isnardia palustris americana, Isnardia palustris riparia, Isnardia palustris rivularis, Isnardia palustris submersa, Isnardia palustris terrestris, Jussiaea isnardia, Ludwigia apetala, Ludwigia nitida, Ludwigia palustris americana, Ludwigia palustris elongata, Ludwigia palustris inundata, Ludwigia palustris liebmannii, Ludwigia palustris nana, Ludwigia palustris pacifica, Ludwigia palustris palustris, Ludwigia palustris riparia, Ludwigia palustris rivularis, Ludwigia palustris submersa, Ludwigia palustris typica, Peplis portula, Quadricosta palustris, Tiphogeton palustre
Species profile
- Accepted name
- Ludwigia palustris (L.) Elliott Species
- Common names
- Hampshire Purslane, Marsh Seedbox, Marsh Ludwigia, marsh primrose-willow, Marsh-purslane, water false loosestrife, Water-purslane
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Division
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Genus
- Ludwigia
- Habitat
- Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
- Distribution
- Caribbean; North America; Oceania; England (S-England); Netherlands; Belgium; Germany (Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg, +Hessen, +Hamburg, +Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, +Schleswig-Holstein, +Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen [I]); Switzerland; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Portugal; Spain; France; +Channel Isl.; Corsica; Sardinia; Italy; Slovenia; Croatia; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Romania; Bulgaria; European Turkey; Greece (very rare mainland, S-Evvoia, Kerkyra); Ukraine; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; SE-D.R.Congo [Zaire]; Soqotra; S-Angola; Zambia; Zimbabwe; Botswana; South Africa (Limpopo, North-West Prov., Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, W-Cape Prov., E-Cape Prov.); Lesotho; Northern Caucasus; Georgia [Caucasus]; Turkey (NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, W-Anatolia); Iran (N-Iran); Lebanon (Antilebanon); Israel (Rift Valley); Australia [I] (New South Wales [I], Victoria [I]); New Zealand [I]; Hawaii [I] (Kauai [I], Oahu [I], Molokai [I], Maui [I], Hawaii Isl. [I]); Canada (British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec); USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Washington State, Wisconsin, West Virginia); Bermuda; Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México State, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); Guatemala; Costa Rica; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico; Colombia; Venezuela; Peru; Alabama
- Basionym
- Isnardia palustris L.
- Published in
- Elliott. (1817). In: Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 211.
Media and observations
herb (Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN))
Enraizadas con hojas emergidas | Enraizadas con hojas flotantes | Enraizadas en zona húmeda o de transición (Lista de flora acuática continental de Colombia)
GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-10-05. Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5421025 https://www.gbif.org/species/5421025
Common and trade names from InterAquaristik product data.
· Last updated Oct 5, 2026, 3:31 AM