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Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunberg. Whorled Water-pennywort. Phen: May-Jul. Hab: Swamp forests, pools. Dist: Widespread in North, Central, and South America.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Bah, K4, S, Tn, Va; = Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. var. verticillata – C, Fl7, G, GW2, K1, MC, NcTx, NY, RAB, Tat, Tx, WH3; < Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. – Meso4.1, Mex, Mo2, Ok; > Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. var. fetherstoniana (Jenn.) Mathias – F; > Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. var. verticillata – F, K3

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
  • Great Plains: OBL
  • Midwest: OBL
  • Northcentral & Northeast: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Creeping aquatic to semi-aquatic perennial of swamp forests and pools.

Stems: Stems slender, branched, rooting at nodes, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on long petioles attached at the center of the blade, round, shallowly lobed to scallop-margined, shiny.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in 2 or more small, few-flowered umbels arranged along upright stalk arising separately from leaves; white; sessile; tiny; consisting of 5 minute spreading petals and 5 erect stamens.

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Height: 3-8 in.

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description: Creeping aquatic to semi-aquatic perennial of swamp forests and pools.

stems: Stems slender, branched, rooting at nodes, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on long petioles attached at the center of the blade, round, shallowly lobed to scallop-margined, shiny.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in 2 or more small, few-flowered umbels arranged along upright stalk arising separately from leaves; white; sessile; tiny; consisting of 5 minute spreading petals and 5 erect stamens.

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