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Trithuria submersa

Trithuria submersa
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Trithuria submersa is a small annual aquatic herb of the Hydatellaceae family, native to temporary wetlands in southern Australia. It is a wild species rather than a garden plant, and it grows submerged or in very wet, shallow ground.

Family
Hydatellaceae (Hydatell family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the plant submerged or in permanently saturated soil; it grows in shallow water that dries out seasonally in the wild.
Soil
Wet, mud-like substrate or shallow standing water.
Native range
SW. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Trithuria submersa is a species of plant in the family Hydatellaceae endemic to the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.

Where it grows

It is endemic to the Australian states New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.

Other Trithuria plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trithuria submersa 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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