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Water Violet

Hottonia palustris

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 2,656, February 1,962, March 3,073, April 4,835, May 6,971, June 7,602, July 8,134, August 6,996, September 5,136, October 3,834, November 2,095, December 1,637.
United States54,961
Alaska54,931
Germany495
Poland322
Denmark313
United Kingdom299
England279
Russia257
Hovedstaden153
Niedersachsen135

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familyprimrose family · Primulaceae
GenusHottonia

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