Baldellia ranunculoides is an aquatic plant which produced erect flowering stems that rise up to 10 centimetres (4in) above the water surface.[4] Each flower stalk bears one or two umbels of up to five flowers each, and often only a single flower. Each flower is 10–15 millimetres (0.4–0.6in) in diameter, and has three petals.[4] When not in flower, B.ranunculoides can be mistaken for lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula, which grows in similar locations.[4]
Distribution
Baldellia ranunculoides is found along the Atlantic and Baltic coast of western and northern Europe, and along the Mediterranean coasts of southern Europe, Turkey and North Africa.[5][6][7] Recently found in eastern Newfoundland, Bristol's Hope barachois, Avalon Peninsula, the only location in North America. May have been introduced by a float (Sarracenia magazine, Newfoundland and Labrador Wildflower Society.
