Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum

Watercress at Holt, ACT

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Identification history

	Nasturtium officinale	23 Sep 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	23 Sep 2021	trevorpreston

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Plant growing in a small creek. Up to about 50cm high.

3 comments

JaneR wrote:

23 Sep 2021

its difficult to sort this out. The location looks more like a soak than a creek, and if so then it might not be a water plant. There appear to be some purple flowers but not distinct enough to ID, possibly a Veronica ? Some of the leaves resemble Nasturtium officinale (which has white flowers). A height of 50 cm is on the tall side for N. officinale

trevorpreston wrote:

23 Sep 2021

This was definately in a small creek, but I did struggle as to where to put this plant, it may well belong in another plant category. There were no flowers on it at all, so that doesn't help much sorry.

JaneR wrote:

23 Sep 2021

Sorry I can't resolve this. Hopefully another moderator can.

The reason I thought it looked like a soak rather than a creek was because of the photo location, which is up high above Ginninderra Creek on uniform-looking ground.

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16 - 100 Abundance
23 Sep 2021 01:18 PM Recorded on
trevorpreston Recorded by
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Plants Other Fresh Water Plants trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

30cm to 1 metre Plant height

Species information

Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum Scientific name
Watercress Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Minor weed or pest
Up to 1119.76m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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Synonyms
Nasturtium officinale Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum

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