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Dichondra argentea
Silver ponysfoot is a low, creeping subshrub with small kidney-shaped silvery-green leaves, grown mainly as a hanging accent or ground cover in warm climates. It is usually treated as an annual outside frost-free regions and needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Dichondra argentea, the silver ponysfoot or silver nickel vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae.
It is hardy in USDA zones 10 through 12. In cultivation it is grown as annual, chiefly as a hanging accent plant or ground cover. There is a cultivar, 'Silver Falls'.
It is disjunctly distributed in New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, northwest Argentina, and southeast Brazil, and has gone extinct in Arizona.
This plant is popularly known as a remedy for bile in the north of the Mexican Republic, in the states of Aguascalientes and Durango. It is also ingested as an appetizer, laxative and anti-abortive, in this case, due to its property of relaxing the uterine muscle. It is also used to avoid having children. It is also used against heart problems, ant bites, bitterness in the mouth, headaches, to regulate fever and relieve toothache, tonsillitis and pain due to anger.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dichondra argentea 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.
