Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with ca 35 species in two genera: Elatine and Bergia. The Elatine are mostly aquatic herbs, and the Bergia are subshrubs to shrubs. Elatine species are widely distributed throughout the world from temperate to tropical zones, with its greatest diversity found in temperate zones. Bergia is found in temperate to tropical Eurasia and Africa, with two tropical and one tropical to temperate species in the Americas. The center for biodiversity of Bergia is the Old World tropics, and this is also the center for biodiversity for the family. Neither genus is found in arctic ecosystems.
Tiliacora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australia.
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific. In Australia it is commonly known as kangaroo grass and in East Africa and South Africa it is known as red grass and red oat grass or as rooigras in Afrikaans. Kangaroo grass was formerly thought to be one of two species, and was named Themeda australis.
Kickxia is a genus of plants in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It includes several species known commonly as cancerworts or fluellins. Species are mostly native to Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, with two, K. elatine and K. spuria, well-established as invasive elsewhere.
Salix triandra, with the common names almond willow, almond-leaved willow or black maul willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and Western and Central Asia. It is found from south-eastern England east to Lake Baikal, and south to Spain and the Mediterranean east to the Caucasus, and the Alborz Mountains. It usually grows in riparian habitats, on river and stream banks, and in wetlands.
Elatine is one of only two genera in the plant family Elatinaceae, the waterwort family. It contains about 25 species of aquatic plants known generally as waterworts. These are annual or perennial plants found in wet areas worldwide.
Bergia texana is a species of flowering plant in the waterwort family known by the common name Texas bergia. It is native to the western and central United States and northern Mexico, where it is a plant of wetlands, living in mud and moist soils along the edges of rivers and pools. This is an annual or perennial herb producing a branching, glandular, hairy stem which grows upright or trailing up to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long, mainly oval in shape and pointed, and lightly toothed along the edges. The inflorescences appear at the tips of stem branches and in the leaf axils, bearing single flowers or small clusters. Each small flower has five green sepals and five greenish white petals. Some of the flowers open, while others are cleistogamous, remaining closed and self-pollinating. The fruit is an oval capsule with many seeds in each of its five chambers.
Elatine alsinastrum is a member of the genus Elatine in the plant family Elatinaceae, the waterwort family.
Heath Lake is a 6-hectare (15-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Berkshire. The SSSI is part of the 22.3-hectare (55-acre) Heathlake Local Nature Reserve, which is owned and managed by Wokingham District Council.
Elatine minima is a species of flowering plant in the family Elatinaceae, native to eastern Canada, the north-central United States, the northeastern United States, and the southeastern United States. It was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1817 as Crypta minima and transferred to Elatine in 1836.
Adamovas Lake Nature Park is a specially protected nature territory Rēzekne district Vērēmi Parish. Includes Lake Adamovas, part of Lake Vizulītis and Burzava Hills part between these lakes with 203.5 m high Sarkaņkolns. The protected area was established in 1977 as a complex nature reserve in the area of 441 ha "Lake Adamova with the surrounding landscape", was reorganized in 1998 into a nature reserve. Natura 2000 site. A popular place to relax.
Elatine hydropiper is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Elatinaceae.
Elatine spathulata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Elatinaceae.
Elatine ojibwayensis, also known as the Ojibway waterwort, is a species of plant in the genus Elatine. It is endemic to Quebec, Canada. It is listed as critically imperiled by NatureServe.
Elatine gratioloides is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Elatinaceae.
Elatine gussonei is a species of plant in the genus Elatine (waterworts). It is endemic to Malta.
Squantz Pond is a 288-acre lake in Fairfield County, Connecticut. It is located on the town line of Sherman and New Fairfield, and is bordered by manmade Candlewood Lake. The south shore is protected as Squantz Pond State Park, and is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The pond is named for Chief Squantz, a leader of the Schaghticoke tribe.
