Author: | Carl Linnaeus, 1757 |
Family: |
ISOETACEAE |
Origin: |
Altay,
Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European
Russia, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European
Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain,
Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Labrador, Maine,
Manitoba, Netherlands, New Brunswick, Norway, Nova Scotia,
Ontario, Poland, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Tennessee, USA, Vermont, Virginia, West
Siberia, Wisconsin |
Soil: |
Sand |
Water:
|
Max |
Sun: |
Medium |
Thickness: |
2,5
Centimetres |
Height: |
30
Centimetres |
Flower:
|
No;
Spores; White - Cream-Coloured |
Propagate: |
Spores |
Names:
|
Lake
Quillwort, Merlin's-grass, Sortgrøn Brasenføde, See-Brachsenkraut,
Stivt Brasmegras, Styvt braxengräs |
Synonyms: |
Calamaria lacustris Kuntze, 1891.
Juncus bufonius, Carl Linnaeus, 1757.
Isoetes macrospora Durieu.
Isoetes rossica
Gand.
Isoetes hieroglyphica, A.A.Eaton.
Isoetes lacustris var. stricta, Motelay &
Vendryès
Isoetes moorei, Moore. |
This member of the Isoetaceae
family was given this name by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It is found
from Canada, through Europe to northern Asia, growing in lakes with little nutrition from five
centimetres to five meters debt. The caudex can grow to
one and a half centimetre, the leaves to 40 centimetres length.
The genera name
means 'all the same year round'. The species name; lacustris,
from the Latin lacus; 'lake', and ustris; 'origin'.
Also seen as member of the Juncaceae
and Lycopodiaceae families. |