Curly Waterweed - Lagarosiphon major
Submerged aquatic plant with elongated stems forming entangled masses. Leaves linear, alternate, spreading and recurved, crowded towards the shoot tips, minutely toothed. Flowers pinkish, 3 to 4 mm.
Lakes and canals.
Flowers July and August.
Aquatic.
Widespread in the southern half of Britain.
First recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland in 1999 and now spreading. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Pool in field near Stoney Stanton Playing Fields
27 June 2016
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
25 June 2015
Ron.stevens
The lake
03 October 2013
Graham Calow
Pool in field near Stoney Stanton Playing Fields
27 June 2016
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
25 June 2015
Ron.stevens
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
03 October 2013
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Species profile
- Common names
- Curly Waterweed
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Alismatales
- Family:
- Hydrocharitaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 15
- First record:
- 22/08/2007 (Dave Wood)
- Last record:
- 24/05/2022 (Mabbett, Craig)
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