Hygrophila abyssinica
A water-loving herb of the acanthus family, found widely in tropical African swamps, floodplains and seasonally wet ground, including the Okavango. The regional climate is hot savanna, but the plant itself sits in wet soil or shallow water. Treat it as a warm marsh plant.
Where it grows wild
It grows on marshy and seasonally flooded ground, at river and pool margins and in swamps, in open sun or at sunny edges. This is inferred from the genus and from records in the Okavango and Lake Chad basins.
Records span 275 to 1,450 m, median about 1,000 m.
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