Common name
English: Water Primrose
Mandarin: 水龙 (shui long)
English: Water Primrose
Mandarin: 水龙 (shui long)
Kingdom: Plantae (2592)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2489)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2104)
Order: Myrtales (76)
Family: Onagraceae (16)(family description)
Genus: Ludwigia (6)
Epithet: adscendens (L.) Hara (1)
Synonyms: Jussiaea adscendens L., Jussiaea repens L.
adscendens => rising upwards
repens => creeping and rooting
Climate: tropical
Habitat: helophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: white
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