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Mudflat quillplant

Lilaeopsis masonii

Also called Mason's Lilaeopsis

A small, creeping freshwater and brackish marsh plant from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay shores in California. It needs wet, muddy or shallow-water conditions and is rarely grown outside its native habitat.

Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone constantly wet or submerged in shallow water.
Soil
Wet mud or fine silt, as found in marsh margins.
How easy
Hard

About

Lilaeopsis masonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common names mudflat quillplant and Mason's lilaeopsis. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and nearby shores of San Francisco Bay.

It is a plant of freshwater and brackish marshes and other estuary habitat. The plant is rare overall, limited in distribution to about 80 populations in a single network of water bodies, but it is locally abundant in some areas. It is a common bayside plant in Suisun Marsh.

Other Lilaeopsis plants

Lilaeopsis brasiliensis · Western grasswort · Schaffner's grasswort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lilaeopsis masonii 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.

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