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water starwort

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(Plants) See starwort2
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Noun1.water starwort - any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves; America, Europe and Asia
Callitriche, genus Callitriche - water starworts
aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
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Choose from water crowsfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis), water violet (Hottonia palustris), water moss (Fontinalis), water starworts (Callitriche spp and Ceratophylium spp).