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  • Intertwining starred complexity of water-crowfoot makes an illuminated manuscript of the stream.

    Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon 2011

  • Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • Here swaying alongside danced the little rafts of water-crowfoot, under the leaning alders.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • In streams some of the best plants are water-crowfoot, water-starwort, and the great water moss.

    Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

  • Page 78: water crow-foot changed to water-crowfoot for consistency.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • Well, that looks like a bit of poaching, at all events; the fish are spawning amongst that water-crowfoot, no doubt; just hook out some weed, and I dare say we shall see some eggs.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • Dipping amongst the duckweed and water-crowfoot is always attended with numerous captures, and Willy's bottle was soon full of active little creatures.

    Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

  • White water-crowfoot, water-soldier, and arrowheads will form the fringe of the pool.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

  • Across the river it is always deep, swift, and dark, though the sandbanks come in places near the surface, and in the shallows grow water-crowfoot, with waving green hair under water, and white stems above it.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

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