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Hydrophyllum canadense
Also called Blunt Leaf Waterleaf, Canada Waterleaf, Blunt Leaved Waterleaf, Broad Leaved Waterleaf, Broad Leaf Waterleaf, Broadleaf Waterleaf
Hydrophyllum canadense, known as bluntleaf waterleaf, broadleaf waterleaf, or Canada waterleaf, is native to the eastern United States and Canada. The genus Hydrophyllum is placed in the family Hydrophyllaceae.
Hydrophyllum canadense is one of ten species of Hydrophyllum, a genus endemic to North America. It can be distinguished from other Hydrophyllum species across its range by a combination of the following features: perennial, stem leaves palmately lobed, sepals lacking appendages (or less than 0.5 mm in length), and stamens exserted 3–6 mm.
Great waterleaf · Brown's waterleaf · Ballhead waterleaf · Fendler's waterleaf · Largeleaf waterleaf · Western waterleaf · Pacific waterleaf · Eastern waterleaf · Waterleaf
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hydrophyllum canadense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
