Bacopa repens

Creeping water hyssop

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Creeping water hyssop is a naturalized perennial found in the Sacramento Valley at Biggs Rice Experiment Station in wet soil or shallow water at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white to pink flowers 3.5 to 5.9 millimeters long with delicate, slightly asymmetric petals. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems that spread horizontally, it forms low-growing patches in moist environments. Its leaves are 10 to 23 millimeters long, broadly obovate with more than six prominent veins arranged in a palmate pattern. As an agricultural weed, the plant has small, narrowly ovate sepals that are often fringed with fine hairs.

Habitat: Wet soil or in shallow water

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: ScV (Biggs Rice Experiment station)

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