Plant ID's

[Bmtiz92]

Bought a couple of plants from my LFS and was curious what one of them is, and to double check on the other two. I'm guessing hairgrass and rotala rotundifolia on the first two, but I'm not sure on the flast pic. Thanks!

 

[daileene]

You are right on the first two. That is indeed hair grass and rotalas. The last is some kind of ludwigia? I am not 100% sure. But that is my guess.

 

[aqua_chem]

I don't think it's hairgrass. My bet is lilaeopsis brasiliensis, or microsword. Possibly also Lilaeopsis maurtiana. Agree that the second one is R. rotundifolia. Third one looks like Ludwigia Repens to me.

 

[JokerWx13]

the first one looks like micro sword to me...

 

[Bmtiz92]

Hmm it does look a lot like microsword, also like the lilaeopsis brasiliensis. Also the other one looks a lot like ludwigia repens.
Two of the plants came with tags but neither seem to really match, they were L. novaezelandiae and L. peruensis.

 

[aqua_chem]

I ment "or microsword" as in "also known as microsword". Lilaeposis brasiliensis is the technical name of microsword.

 

[roydooms]

The third one does look like ludwigia repens.

 

[aqua_chem]

The bottom part certainly does. The upper leaves do kind of look like L. Grandulosa (peruensis is a incorrect name for this plant). They look a bit more elongated and maroony. Many ludwigia species look like L. Repens when grown emersed, but then start to look like their actual forms. We'll have to see what it's like in a month.


FAN has been mislabeling Lilaeopsis brasiliensis incorrectly as novaezelandiae for years. To my knowledge they only very recently corrected this. There's a good change it's actually brasiliensis.