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Bacopa rotundifolia
Also called Disk Water Hyssop, Disc Water Hyssop, Midwestern Water Hyssop, Round Leaved Water Hyssop, Disc Waterhyssop, Round Leaf Water Hyssop, Wet Waterhyssop
Disk waterhyssop is a small aquatic or semi-aquatic annual with round leaves and white flowers, native to the central US and Latin America. It grows best with its stems in shallow water or wet soil and full sun, and it can become invasive in waterways.
Bacopa rotundifolia is a species of water hyssop known as the disk water hyssop or round-leafed water hyssop, due to the shape of its leaves. This is an aquatic plant native to water bodies of the central United States and well known in other areas as an invasive weed of waterways. The round leaves are 1 to 3 centimeters wide and each has six longitudinal veins. The plant produces yellow-throated white flowers. The plant is in bloom during the fall, its fruit/seed abundance is medium and its seed spread rate is slow. The plant has no commercial use.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bacopa rotundifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
