Author:
Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-431.11.01
Marsilea quadrifolia
English: Four leaf clover; European waterclover.
India: Sushni.
Tamil: Aalaik keerai.
Region: central and southern Europe, Caucasia, western Siberia, Afghanistan, south-west India, China, Japan, Vietnam; introduced into the United States.
Habitat: prefers light, sandy and medium, loamy soils; grows in semi-shade, light woodland or no shade; prefers moist or wet soil and can grow in water, wet soil, semi-submerged; unfussy as to light and water conditions; doesn't need a rich substrate.
Use: food; aquarium plant.
Botany
Herb; fern; aquatic
Leaves: 4 parted leaf resembling Trifolium; floating in deep water or erect in shallow water or on land; leaflets obdeltoid, to 2 cm long, glaucous, petioles to 20 cm long; emergent from the water and floating, or fully submerged.
Sporocarp: ellipsoid, to 5 mm long, dark brown, on stalks to 20 mm long, attached to base of petioles.