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|accepted_name=Crassula aquatica
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Schönland in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|place=51[III,2a]: 37. 1890 ,
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|common_names=Water pygmyweed;river-leek
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tillaea aquatica
|authority=Linnaeus
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Crassula saginoides
|authority=(Maximowicz) M. Bywater & Wickens
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|name=Tillaeastrum aquaticum
|authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
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|hierarchy=Crassulaceae;Crassula;Crassula aquatica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Crassulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crassula]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Crassula aquatica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 151, 152, 154
|treatment_page=page 153
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>aquatic, sometimes stranded, annual. <b>Stems</b> decumbent, later ± erect if stranded, reddish in age, usually branched at base, to 14 cm, (rooting at basal nodes). <b>Leaf</b> blades oblanceolate to linear, 2–6 mm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> lax; flowers 1 per node. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–20 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 4-merous; sepals ovate to oblong, 0.5–1.5 mm, apex obtuse to rounded; petals ovate to oblong, 1–2 mm. <b>Follicles</b> erect, 6–17-seeded, oblong; old follicles spreading, flat. <b>Seeds</b> oblong-ellipsoid, (0.3–)0.4–0.5(–0.6) × 0.1–0.3 mm, not papillate, dull, minutely rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 42 (Iceland).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal marshes and brackish mudflats, vernal pools, muddy margins of ponds and streams
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Yukon;Ala.;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tex.;Utah;Vt.;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico;n Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>The typical form of Crassula aquatica, with very short fruiting pedicels, grows chiefly in coastal salt marsh. It is rare and widely scattered in Alaska and Canada (W. J. Cody 1954), scarcely more common southward. M. Bywater and G. E. Wickens (1984) separated C. saginoides by pedicels elongate in fruit, sometimes to ca. 2 cm. It grows mostly inland and sometimes to 3000 meters, but from the specimens that they annotated, the ranges are not distinct. N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose (1905) and W. L. Jepson (1923–1925) have separated it, at least varietally, under other names, but most authors have included it without comment or at most have called it doubtfully distinct. I call it merely a phase of C. aquatica not needing a formal name (R. V. Moran 1992b). A typical strand plant is depicted in the lower left corner of the illustration panel on this page.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cody1954a
|text=Cody, W. J. 1954. A history of Tillaea aquatica (Crassulaceae) in Canada and Alaska. Rhodora 56: 96–100.
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name=Crassula aquatica
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Schönland in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Crassula saginoides;Tillaeastrum aquaticum
|basionyms=Tillaea aquatica
|family=Crassulaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Coastal marshes and brackish mudflats, vernal pools, muddy margins of ponds and streams
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;B.C.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Yukon;Ala.;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Minn.;Mont.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tex.;Utah;Vt.;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico;n Eurasia.
|reference=cody1954a
|publication title=in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Crassula
|species=Crassula aquatica
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