Common names:
Water violet, featherfoil
Family:
Scientific name:
Hottonia palustris
Main flower color:
Range:
South and southeast England, and parts of Wales
Height:
Up to 40 cm
Habitat:
Still or slow-moving water, or watery margins
Flowers:
Five narrow, linear, spreading green sepals, sparsely glandular hairy, and five obovate petals, slightly notched at the tip. Petals are pale pink towards the tip, dark yellow at the base, otherwise white. The five stamens have yellow filaments and yellow anthers, while the pistil is green, mush shorter than the stamens. Flowers are arranged in several well-separated whorls, of between three and eight
Leaves:
Whorled, up to 10 cm long, pinnately divided into opposite, closely-spaced pairs of very narrow lobes. Leaves are usually both submerged and floating
Season:
May to June
Rarity:
★★★★★
