A small European plant with grasslike leaves, growing in mud and shallow water at the edge of ponds.
Littorella uniflora, family Plantaginaceae
Example sentencesExamples
- The figure for shoreweed and water lobelia is based on a sample of 93 fens and dune pools.
- The 34-foot deep eastern basin has a sand and gravel bottom with a variety of sterile-rosette aquatics including the rare plantain shoreweed.
- Especially important are the assemblies of peat-bog plants with species like sweetgale, cross-leaved heath, shoreweed, heath rush, tufted bulrush.
- Cutting or collecting shoreweed and bottomweed is prohibited from sunset to sunrise and also on Sunday.
- The specialized flora includes the rare plantain shoreweed, water lobelia, and quillwort.