Hey,
I went help some colleagues setting up an experiment on the lakes here in the Azores and brought with me a little bit of a plant that we found but we were not able to id. It is very similar to Eleocharis vivipara but gets a red tinge towards the upper part of the plant. See photos below. Also collected a little bit of Littorella uniflora 🙂
There is loads more. I need to go snorkeling there. Most lakes are pretty much degraded due to manure in the vicinity which runs off into the lakes when it rains. But this one had cristal clear water. Very low salinity, high altitude and quite shallow (8 m depth maximum). Soil is mostly pumice with organic material. It looked like a seagrass praire.
Detail of the red part
Littorela uniflora
I went help some colleagues setting up an experiment on the lakes here in the Azores and brought with me a little bit of a plant that we found but we were not able to id. It is very similar to Eleocharis vivipara but gets a red tinge towards the upper part of the plant. See photos below. Also collected a little bit of Littorella uniflora 🙂
There is loads more. I need to go snorkeling there. Most lakes are pretty much degraded due to manure in the vicinity which runs off into the lakes when it rains. But this one had cristal clear water. Very low salinity, high altitude and quite shallow (8 m depth maximum). Soil is mostly pumice with organic material. It looked like a seagrass praire.
Detail of the red part
Littorela uniflora
