Creeping Ludwigia

Nile Valley North of Nubia (Location: Delta), Nubian Desert Oases, Libyan Desert Oases, Mareotic Sector, North Sinai, Nile Valley North of Nubia (Location: Fayium), Isthmic Desert, Galala Desert.

Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, tropical Africa.

Canals and ditches.

Perennial.

Height: 20-80 cm.

Perennial creeping herb, rooting at the nodes, sometimes a floating aquatic. Stems often purple-red, prostrate or ascending. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, shiny dark green. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils, pale yellow with a darker spot at the base of the petals. Sepals and petals 5; stamens 10. Fruit a capsule, light brown with 10 conspicuous dark brown ribs.

Common

Throughout Africa and from Israel and Lebanon to Iraq.