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|accepted_name=Hottonia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 145. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 72. 1754 (as Hottomia) ,
}}
|common_names=Featherfoil;water-violet
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Primulaceae;Hottonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Primulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hottonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Petrus Hotton, 1648–1709, Dutch botanist
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 257, 258
|treatment_page=page 259
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual or perennial, not cushion- or mat-forming, aquatic, not succulent; resin canals obvious. <b>Rhizomes</b> absent; roots fibrous. <b>Stems</b> mostly submerged, ascending or erect, rarely floating, simple, sometimes inflated. <b>Leaves</b> submerged to floating, cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, 1–2-pinnately divided into linear or filiform segments; petiole present, winged or not; blade oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, base cuneate to truncate, margins entire, apex rounded to acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> sessile umbels of 1 (in young plants)–15 rachises, each rachis bearing 3–10 verticils, each verticil 3–10-flowered; bracts 1 per flower. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or ± erect to spreading. <b>Flowers</b> heterostylous; sepals 5, green, calyx campanulate, not keeled, glandular or stipitate-glandular, lobes not reflexed, much longer than tube; petals 5, white to yellow or violet, corolla tubular to salverform, lobes erect, shorter than tube, apex rounded; stamens included; filaments distinct; anthers not connivent. <b>Capsules</b> ± globose, valvate, dehiscent to base. <b>Seeds</b> 100–200, brownish to reddish brown, angular to globose, coarsely to finely reticulate. <b>x</b> = 10, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;e United States;Europe;temperate areas.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Hottonia palustris Linnaeus, found throughout Europe, differs from H. inflata, in part, by having stems sometimes stoloniferous, much larger and fewer flowers that are violet to yellow, corollas longer than the calyx, and a non-inflated rachis.</p>
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name=Hottonia
|author=Anita F. Cholewa
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Primulaceae
|distribution=c;e United States;Europe;temperate areas.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
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|genus=Hottonia
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