| DESCRIPTION: It is a short creeping, perennial, herbaceous, amphibious plant reaching 5-30 cm in height and 15-20 cm in width. In a basal rosette of 7-14 leaves looking rather like that of a daisy, and also up the stem, shiny, light green, 10 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, slightly fleshy, with rounded tip and narrowing to a stalk-like base. USE: The young leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The plant is very ornamental as a foreground plant, in shallow aquariums as a swamp plant in a terrarium and as an indoor plant if placed in a north-facing window. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. COMMON NAMES: Seaside brookweed, Brookweed, Salzbunge, Strandsamel. FURTHER INF: It can be found in wet soil, among wet rocks, in wetlands and creeks near where burns enter the sea and in shallow water. It can be found in North America from southern Canada to the Caribbean and in Europe from Southern Scandinavia to northern Africa. |
