Ludwigia microcarpa Michx.

Small Fruit Seedbox; Small Fruit Primrose Willow

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

Small Fruit Seedbox is a native perennial herb in the Evening-Primrose family (Onagraceae). It can be found throughout Alabama. Small Fruit Seedbox occurs along streams and ponds, in bogs, and in wet roadside ditches. It is a perennial with a woody base. The base of the plant is often spongy with aerenchyma (spongy tissue that creates spaces or air channels for gas exchange). It is often colonial from slender stolons at the base of the stems. The stems are erect, winged, usually branched, green in color, and glabrous. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, elliptic to spatulate in outline, glabrous, with entire or minutely toothed margins. Flowers are produced in the axils of the leaves or in leafy spikes or racemes. The flowers lack petals. The fruit is a capsule.—A. Diamond.

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Native OBL (NWPL)

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