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Ludwigia grandiflora, the water primrose, is an aquatic plant of the order Myrtales. [2]It is closely related and easily confused with Ludwigia hexapetala. [3] The two species can be distinguished at a chromosomal level, because L. grandiflora is hexaploid and L. hexapetala is decaploid. [4]
Ludwigia (primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose) is a genus of about 82 species of aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan but mainly tropical distribution. Currently (2023), there is much debate among botanists and plant taxonomists as to the classification of many Ludwigia species.
Ludwigia palustris is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names marsh seedbox, [1] Hampshire-purslane [2] and water purslane. This is an aquatic or semiaquatic perennial herb which grows in moist to wet to flooded areas.
Ludwigia peploides is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names floating primrose-willow and creeping water primrose. It is native to Australia, North America, and South America, but it can be found on many continents and spreads easily to become naturalized .
Ludwigia decurrens is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names willow primrose and wingleaf primrose-willow. It is native to the central and eastern United States.
Ludwigia alternifolia, commonly known as seedbox, [4] bushy seedbox, [2] rattlebox, [5] and square-pod water-primrose, [6] is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Onagraceae (evening primrose family). [7] It is native to central and eastern North America, growing in marshes, wet meadows, and swamps.
Ludwigia hyssopifolia, called seedbox and linear leaf water primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ludwigia, native to the New World Tropics and widely introduced to the rest of the world's tropics. [2] A serious weed of rice paddies, a single plant can produce 250,000 seeds. [3]
Ludwigia hexapetala is native to Latin America.It occurs naturally in swampier regions, such as those of lakes, ponds, and other areas of low intensity/stagnant water. It grows in mats of up to three feet tall, and in doing so, it crowds and/or shades out the other, more native species.