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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><i>Hottonia</i> palustris Linnaeus, found throughout Europe, differs from <i>H. inflata</i>, 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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