Callitriche hermaphroditica -- (Northern Water Starwort)


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 Scientific Name:  Callitriche hermaphroditica
 Common Name:  Northern Water Starwort
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Green
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Drought Tolerance:  None
 Flower Conspicuous:  No
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  High
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  High
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  High
 Bloom Period:  Late Summer
 Commercial Availability:  No Known Source
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  80
 Foliage Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  Low
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  High
 Foliage Texture:  Fine
 Growth Form:  Single Crown
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Rapid
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Short
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  1100
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  700
 pH (Maximum):  7.4
 pH (Minimum):  5.6
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Salt Tolerance:  Low
 Shape and Orientation:  Decumbent
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  800000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Seedling Vigor:  Medium
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -33
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Propagation:  Seed, Sprigs
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Callitrichales
 Family:  Callitrichaceae
 Genus:  Callitriche

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