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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Bacopa
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 128, plate 49. 1775
|year=1775
}}
|common_names=Water-hyssop
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Bacopa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bacopa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Aboriginal name in French Guiana
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 12, 14, 15, 270, 425
|treatment_page=page 260
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, emergent or submerged, sometimes rooting from proximal nodes. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or erect, glabrous or slightly hairy. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite [whorled]; petiole obscure or absent; blade fleshy (<i>B. monnieri</i>) or not, not leathery, margins entire, crenate, or serrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, flowers solitary or in pairs; bracts absent. <b>Pedicels</b> present or absent; bracteoles present [absent]. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals 4 or 5, distinct, outer wider than inner, ovate, lanceolate, or oblong, calyx radially or bilaterally symmetric, campanulate; corolla white (sometimes with yellow throat), pink, or violet-blue, radially or bilaterally (<i>B. repens</i>) symmetric, regular or weakly bilabiate, rotate or campanulate, rarely tubular, tube base not spurred or gibbous, throat not densely pilose internally, lobes 4 or 5, abaxial 2 or 3, adaxial 2; stamens 2–4, adnate to corolla, didynamous or equal, filaments glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigmas peltately flattened and semicapitate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence septicidal-loculicidal or loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 80–120, brownish black, ellipsoid to cylindric, reticulate, wings absent. × = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Europe;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 70 (7 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Bacopa</i> laxiflora (Bentham) Wettstein ex Edwall, native to Central America and South America, has been introduced to Mexico and may be expected in the flora area. Plants of B. laxiflora resemble <i>B. monnieri</i>; they differ by erect stems and acute leaf blade apices.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=barrett1978a
|text=Barrett, S. C. H. and J. L. Strother. 1978. Taxonomy and natural history of Bacopa (Scrophulariaceae) in California. Syst. Bot. 3: 408–419.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=schuyler1989a
|text=Schuyler, A. E. 1989. Intertidal variants of Bacopa rotundifolia and B. innominata in the Chesapeake Bay drainage. Bartonia 55: 18–22.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades 1-nerved.
|[[Bacopa monnieri|Bacopa monnieri]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades (3–)5–9+-nerved.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants aromatic; bracteoles present; corollas violet-blue with violet-blue throats.
|[[Bacopa caroliniana|Bacopa caroliniana]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants not aromatic; bracteoles absent; corollas white with yellow or white throats or pink with pink throats.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade bases narrowly cuneate.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade margins crenate.
|[[Bacopa egensis|Bacopa egensis]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade margins entire.
|[[Bacopa repens|Bacopa repens]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade bases broadly cuneate to truncate.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Pedicels 6–10 mm; corollas 2–5 mm, white with white throats.
|[[Bacopa innominata|Bacopa innominata]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Pedicels 9–51 mm; corollas 5–14 mm, white with yellow throats.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Pedicels 9–15 mm; corollas 5–10 mm.
|[[Bacopa rotundifolia|Bacopa rotundifolia]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Pedicels 17–51 mm; corollas 10–14 mm.
|[[Bacopa eisenii|Bacopa eisenii]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Bacopa
|author=Adjoa Richardson Ahedor
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Europe;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar);Australia.
|reference=barrett1978a;schuyler1989a
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=1775
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_629.xml
|genus=Bacopa
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