Alisma lanceolatum With., 1796

Common names

🇬🇧 Narrow-leaved Water-plantain
🇫🇷 Plantain-d’eau à feuilles lancéolées, Alisme lancéolé, Plantain-d’eau lancéolé

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Alismataceae
Tribe: Alismateae
Genus: Alisma
Species: Alisma lanceolatum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with A. plantago-aquatica L., 1753, whose leaves have a subcordate or truncate base, while those of A. lanceolatum have a cuneate base.

Hybridizes with A. plantago-aquatica L., 1753 to produce A. × rhicnocarpum Schotsman, 1949, P.

Photographs

img/alisma-lanceolatum.webp — *Alisma lanceolatum*

img/alisma-lanceolatum-2.webp — *Alisma lanceolatum*

img/alisma-lanceolatum-3.webp — *Alisma lanceolatum*

img/alisma-lanceolatum-4.webp — *Alisma lanceolatum* - Leaves

Sources

Lansdown, R.V. (2011). Alisma lanceolatum (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/163974/5674920
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 70). Biotope.