Nymphoides crenata flower1 (16828473529)

Description:

Description: Native, warm season, perennial herb with long-stemmed floating leaves and ± floating stolons to 2 m long. Basal leaves are ovate and 5–12 cm long, with a strongly cordate base and crenate margins; leaves on stolons smaller with shorter petioles, these subtending inflorescences of few to many flowers. Flowers are solitary on pedicels 3–8 cm long. Corolla is 15–20 mm long and yellow, with fringed margins. Flowering is from spring to autumn. Grows in slow-flowing water to about 1.5 m deep, usually on a mud substrate; it can persist on drying mud. Widespread in inland districts. Date: 7 March 2008, 12:06. Source: Nymphoides crenata flower1. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia. Other versions: This file has an extracted image: File:Nymphoides crenata flower1 (16828473529) (cropped).jpg..