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Ludwigia hyssopifolia
Also called Linear Leaf Water Primrose, Seed Box
Seedbox (Ludwigia hyssopifolia) is a small annual or subshrub of wet tropical areas, often found in shallow water and mud. It is a serious weed of rice paddies, and it spreads very rapidly from its seeds.
Ludwigia hyssopifolia, called seedbox and linear leaf water primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ludwigia, native to the New World Tropics and widely introduced to the rest of the world's tropics. A serious weed of rice paddies, a single plant can produce 250,000 seeds.
Water Primrose · Large-flower primrose-willow · Water Primrose · Ludwigia inclinata · Marsh seedbox · Peruvian primrose-willow · Hairy primrose-willow · Creeping primrose-willow
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ludwigia hyssopifolia 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.
