Marsileaceae - Botanical Family

Botanical name: Marsilea hirsuta

Common name: Waterclover

Family: Marsileaceae

Origin: Australia

Marsilea hirsuta is a good aquarium plant that is ideal for the foreground in an aquarium setting. It is a short plant with clover-like looks that grows slowly and if planted in groups will form coverage like a carpet in the aquarium. After a transitional period it develops different types of leaves, possibly a low form with single leaves like a large Glossostigma, or alternatively develop two, three or four-lobed leaves varying in height (from 2-10 cm), depending on the growth conditions.

Botanical name: Marsilea mutica

Common name: Waterclover

Family: Marsileaceae

Origin: Australia

Marsilea mutica can be grown as a potted plant, either just with soil kept wet, or semi-submerged, with fronds emergent from the water, or fully-submerged, with the fronds floating on the surface of the water.

Floating leaves with a distinctive pattern of green, yellow and red mounds up in very shallow water.

Botanical name: Marsilea quadrifolia

Common names: Four Leaf Clover, European Waterclover, Aquatic Fern

Family: Marsileaceae

Origin: southern Europe

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Marsilea quadrifolia can be grown as a potted plant, either just with soil kept wet, or semi-submerged, with fronds emergent from the water, or fully-submerged, with the fronds floating on the surface of the water.

Botanical name: Marsilea strigosa

Common name: Waterclover

Family: Marsileaceae

Origin: Australia