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Common Water-plantain Common Water-plantain
Alisma plantago-aquatica
Height up to 1m

Aquatic perennial of margins and shallows of ponds and lakes. Locally common except in N Scotland and SW England. Oval, long-stalked leaves have parallel veins. Pale lilac flowers, 10mm across, borne in branched whorls, June­September.

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