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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 (B. monnieri) 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 (B. repens) 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>Bacopa 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 B. monnieri; 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/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_629.xml
|genus=Bacopa
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