Common mare's-tail
Hippuris vulgaris L.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 56 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Plantaginaceae
Formerly Caullinia hippuroides, Hippuris eschscholtxii, Hippuris fluitans, Hippuris fluviatilis, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- HydrosubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Subarctic & Temp.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 56 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 60–60 cm; Plants for a Future 0.5–0.5 m
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 杉叶藻
- Czech
- prustka obecná
- German
- Gewöhnlicher Tannenwedel, Tannenwedel
- Finnish
- lamparevesikuusi
- French
- pesse deau
- Dutch
- lidsteng, Lidsteng
- Simplified Chinese
- 分枝杉叶藻, 杉叶藻
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Hippuris vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.