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Floating marshpennywort

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides

Also called Floating Pennywort, Floating Marsh Pennywort, Floating Water Pennywort

Floating marshpennywort
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Velela assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
America
Climate
temperate

About

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, commonly known as floating pennywort, or floating marshpennywort, is an aquatic plant in the family Araliaceae. It is native to North and South America.

Other Hydrocotyle plants

American marshpennywort · Largeleaf pennywort · Hydrocotyle digitata · Forest Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hexagona · Hairy Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hitchcockii · Nepalese Pennywort · Hydrocotyle laxiflora · Musky marshpennywort · Hydrocotyle phoenix · Whorled marshpennywort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hydrocotyle ranunculoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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