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Najas tenuissima

Najas tenuissima is a small, slender, submerged aquatic plant in the Hydrocharitaceae family, native to cool temperate waters of Finland, Russia, Mongolia and Japan. It grows in still or slow water and is rarely cultivated, so care is mainly about keeping it submerged in clean, mildly nutrient-rich water.

Family
Hydrocharitaceae (Hydrocharit family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep fully submerged in still or slow-moving water at all times.
Soil
Fine substrate or sandy-muddy bottom, or planted in aquarium gravel and nutrient-rich substrate.
Temperature
10–22 °C; avoid prolonged heat above 25 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Finland to European Russia, Mongolia to Russian Far East and Japan (Hokkaido,
Climate
temperate

About

Najas tenuissima is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Hydrocharitaceae. It is native to Amur Oblast, Finland, Japan, Mongolia, Russia (Central and Northwest European), and Primorsky Krai and is found as an introduced species in Kazakhstan.

Other Najas plants

Najas ancistrocarpa · Needleleaf waternymph · Nodding waternymph · Slender waternymph · Ricefield waternymph · Najas grossareolata · Southern waternymph · Najas hagerupii · Najas halophila · Najas indica · Najas kurziana · Najas madagascariensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Najas tenuissima 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.

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