Littorella americana Is a species of flowering plant commonly called American shore plantain.

Littorella americana Is a monoecious (having separate male and female flowers on the same plant) perennial growing from thin annual stolons and rhizomes.

[4] The sessile, pistillate flowers are produced around the base of the plant, they have long stigmatic styles.

[3] Littorella americana grows in shallow water along the margins of oligotrophic lakes with sandy or gravelly bottoms.

[3] Littorella americana is native to the US states of Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Wisconsin; it is also found in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, and New Brunswick.