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Najas gracillima
Also called Slender Water Nymph, Thread Like Naiad, Thread Leaved Water Nymph, Northern Naiad
Slender waternymph is a small, submerged annual aquatic plant with branching stems, found in lakes and streams across temperate Asia and North America. It grows fully underwater and reproduces from seed each year.
Najas gracillima, the slender waternymph, is a submerged species of aquatic plant in the Hydrocharitaceae family. found in lakes and streams. It is native to China (Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Russian Far East (Amur and Khabarovsk), Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Alberta, Ontario, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the eastern United States (every state east of the Mississippi River except Florida, plus Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and the District of Columbia). It is also considered introduced and naturalized in France, Spain, Italy and California (Plumas and Tehama Counties).
Najas gracillima is a small aquatic annual with branching stems. The unisexual flowers ( each flower is only one sex) are produced in the axils of the branchlets and bases of the leaf sheaths.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Najas gracillima 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.
