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Araliaceae
Hydrocotyle

*Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lamarck. Common name: Lawn Water-pennywort. Phenology: Mar-Sep. Habitat: Lawns, pond margin, cracks between paving stone. Greatly increasing as a lawn and garden weed. Distribution: Native of Asia and Africa.

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Origin/Endemic status: Paleotropics

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, Fl7, FNA13, G, K4, MC, NY, Pa, RAB, Tn, Va, WH3, WV; = Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Lam. — Tat; = n/a — Il. Basionym: Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lam. 1789

Links to other floras: = Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides - FNA13

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Wetland Indicator Status:

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

Heliophily ⓘ: 7

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Creeping, mat-forming perennial growing in lawns, pond margins and cracks between paving stones. Native of Asia and Africa.

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

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, round to kidney-shaped, notched at base, shallowly palmately lobed, scallop-margined, light green.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers 3-10 in tiny, stalked umbels arising from leaf axils; greenish-white; minute.

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Height: 2-5 in.

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description: Creeping, mat-forming perennial growing in lawns, pond margins and cracks between paving stones. Native of Asia and Africa.

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

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, round to kidney-shaped, notched at base, shallowly palmately lobed, scallop-margined, light green.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers 3-10 in tiny, stalked umbels arising from leaf axils; greenish-white; minute.

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