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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Elatine americana
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edinburgh J. Nat. Geogr. Sci.
|place=1: 431. 1830
|year=1830
}}
|common_names=American waterwort;élatine américaine
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Peplis americana
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication_place=1: 238. 1813
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Elatine triandra subsp. americana
|authority=(Pursh) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=E. triandra var. americana
|authority=(Pursh) Fassett
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Elatinaceae;Elatine;Elatine americana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Elatinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Elatine]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Elatine americana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 350, 351
|treatment_page=page 352
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> submersed, 1.5–5 cm. <b>Stems</b> ascending or prostrate, branched. <b>Leaves</b> green; stipules lanceolate, 0.5–0.6 mm, margins dentate, apex acute; petiole 0.5–3 mm; blade obovate to broadly spatulate, 3–8 × 0.5–3.5 mm, base attenuate or cuneate, apex rounded to shallowly emarginate. <b>Pedicels</b> to 0.1 mm, erect. <b>Flowers</b> cleistogamous when submersed; sepals (2–)3, equal or 1 reduced, oblong-ovate or widely lanceolate, 0.5 × 0.3–0.5 mm; petals 3, greenish white or pinkish white to reddish, elliptic or ovate, 0.6–1.2 × 0.5 mm; stamens 3; styles 3. <b>Capsules</b> oblong-ovoid, 3-locular, 1.5 mm diam. <b>Seeds</b> 9–12 per locule, slenderly cylindric, ± straight, 0.4–0.6 × (0.1–)0.2 mm; pits angular-hexagonal, length 2–3 times width, in 6(–8) rows, (13–)16–25(–30) per row. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Muddy shorelines including estuaries, in water to 50 cm deep.
|elevation=0–300(–900) m.
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Va.
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name=Elatine americana
|authority=(Pursh) Arnott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Elatine triandra subsp. americana;E. triandra var. americana
|basionyms=Peplis americana
|family=Elatinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Muddy shorelines including estuaries, in water to 50 cm deep.
|elevation=0–300(–900) m.
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Edinburgh J. Nat. Geogr. Sci.
|publication year=1830
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_214.xml
|genus=Elatine
|species=Elatine americana
}}<!--

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