Plant ID

[cbster]

What type of plant is this? It was bought from Petsmart.

 

[lethalcustoms00]

looks like pennywort to me

 

[Inka4040]

Deff not pennywort, as the leaf shape and growth habit are all wrong. My guess is Shinnersia rivularis, but having never been inside a petsmart, I can't say how likely you would be to find such a plant there.

 

[Somervell]

What about Lloydiella? (creeping Jenny)

 

[jpappy789]

I think Inka's correct, but it doesn't look like anything I've seen in local Petsmarts...odd.

 

[skppygurl]

my votes' for water wisteria, they don't have a big variety of plants

 

[Aphotic Phoenix]

:iagree: Emmersed leaf form Wisteria is my guess.

 

[tanker]

Water Wisteria (Hygrophila Difformis), submerged form.

 

[Aphotic Phoenix]

Water Wisteria (Hygrophila Difformis), submerged form.

Emersed = rising above the surface
Submerged = underwater

Emersed growth of H. difformis :

Submerged growth of H. difformis:

I know from personal experience that PetSmart does sell H. difformis in emerged growth form. It grows faster that way, thus it's most likely much cheaper for them to buy. The old leaves that grew above water will eventually die off as the new submerged leaf form grows in, although the first few new leaves will most likely be "emersed" form as well.

 

[tanker]

Emersed = rising above the surface
Submerged = underwater
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LOL---English. Not one of my best subjects. :rofl:


Was trying to say Surface and Emersed.