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Ludwigia peploides
Also called Water Primrose, Creeping Water Primrose, Clovestrip, Floating Seedbox, Creeping Waterprimrose, Floating Primrose, Floating Primrosewillow
Floating primrose-willow (Ludwigia peploides) is a creeping aquatic perennial from the evening primrose family that forms mats on mud or floats on water, with bright yellow flowers. It is grown ornamentally in ponds but is a noxious invader in waterways, so it must be contained.
Ludwigia peploides is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names floating primrose-willow and creeping water primrose. It is native to Australia, North America, and South America, but it can be found on many continents and spreads easily to become naturalized. It is well known as a troublesome aquatic noxious weed that invades water ecosystems and can clog waterways. This is perennial herb which grows in moist to wet to flooded areas. The stem can creep over 2 meters long, sometimes branching. It spreads to form mats on the mud, or floats ascending in the water. The leaves are several centimeters long and are borne in alternately arranged clusters along the stem. The flower has 5 to 6 lance-shaped sepals beneath a corolla of 5 or 6 bright yellow petals up to 2.4 centimeters long. The fruit is a hard, cylindrical capsule.
Ludwigia peploides is native to Australia, North America, and South America.
Luwigia peploides are not commonly ingested. They were traded originally for ornamental purposes.
Water Primrose · Winged primrose-willow · Seedbox · Ludwigia anastomosans · Wingleaf primrose-willow · Cylindricfruit primrose-willow · Large-flower primrose-willow · Floating Ludwigia · Water Primrose · Spindleroot · Seedbox · Ludwigia inclinata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ludwigia peploides 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.
