An aquatic plant either floating in shallow water or creeping along mud flats.
Flowers yellow, star-like, solitary with 6 elongate, narrow petals and a long, thin, tubular base.
Flowers just emergent in shallow water or erect on mud flats. Leaves long, narrow, grass-like, limp, submerged in shallow water, trailing along the ground in mudflats.
Distribution: Throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Water Star Grass is found in quiet, shallow water or the mud flats along rivers and lakes.

