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Ammannia gracilis
Also called Red Ammania
Delicate Ammania is a small annual aquatic plant from tropical Africa, grown in shallow water or wet mud with a red-tinged, creeping stem. It is mainly kept in planted aquariums and wet paludariums, where it needs bright light and steady nutrients.
Ammannia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. It is native to Africa.
This aquatic plant has a branching, prostrate stem that roots at the nodes. The blunt-tipped, lance-shaped leaves are roughly a centimeter long. The small flowers have four purple petals and either 4 or 8 stamens. The flowers occur in small clusters.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ammannia gracilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
