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Trithuria cowieana

Trithuria cowieana
Photo: TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Trithuria cowieana is a small hydroannual aquatic plant from the Hydatellaceae family, known only from the Northern Territory of Australia. It grows in swamps and wet sandy ground, so keeping it consistently moist or wet is the key to growing it.

Family
Hydatellaceae (Hydatell family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the growing medium saturated or standing in shallow water during the growing season.
Soil
Wet sand or mud, nutrient-poor and free-draining when not flooded.
Native range
Northern Territory
Climate
subtropical

About

Trithuria cowieana is a species of aquatic plant in the family Hydatellaceae endemic to the Northern Territory, Australia.

Where it grows

It occurs in swamps, and in sand along roads and vehicle tracks.

Other Trithuria plants

Trithuria austinensis · Trithuria australis · Trithuria bibracteata · Trithuria cookeana · Trithuria filamentosa · Trithuria fitzgeraldii · Trithuria inconspicua subsp. brevistyla · Trithuria inconspicua · Trithuria konkanensis · Trithuria lanterna · Trithuria occidentalis · Trithuria polybracteata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trithuria cowieana 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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