Intro: Creeping, mat-forming perennial of lawns, roadsides and moist pinelands; rarely seen in natural habitats.

Stems: Stems horizontal below and above the soil surface, rooting at the nodes, green or purplish-red, soft-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, rounded or kidney-shaped, 3/8-1 1/4 in. wide, palmately veined, principle veins raised on the lower surface, commonly hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils, greenish-white, less than 1/8 in. wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 rounded lobes, the calyx with 5 longer sepals bearing long hairs on the outer surface.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, 2-lobed capsule.

Comments:

Height: 1-2 in.

plant sale text: Carolina ponyfoot is a creeping, mat-forming perennial rarely seen in its native moist pineland habitat. However, it is often found along roadsides or used in lawns as a groundcover. Its kidney-shaped leaves overlap to form dense cover, and small, white flowers bloom from spring through the summer. It grows best in loose, well-drained soil that is receives regular, thorough watering.

bloom table text:

description: Creeping, mat-forming perennial of lawns, roadsides and moist pinelands; rarely seen in natural habitats.

stems: Stems horizontal below and above the soil surface, rooting at the nodes, green or purplish-red, soft-hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, rounded or kidney-shaped, 3/8-1 1/4 in. wide, palmately veined, principle veins raised on the lower surface, commonly hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary in leaf axils, greenish-white, less than 1/8 in. wide, the corolla bell-shaped with 5 rounded lobes, the calyx with 5 longer sepals bearing long hairs on the outer surface.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, 2-lobed capsule.

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native range: southeastern United States