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Australian hydrocotyle

Hydrocotyle tripartita

Also called Slender pennywort

Australian hydrocotyle
Photo: Izabela1958, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hydrocotyle tripartita is a small creeping perennial herb with vivid green leaves and tiny white flowers, native to eastern Australia and New Zealand. It grows best in moist soil or shallow water and suits damp, sunny to lightly shaded spots.

Family
Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist; it can also grow with its roots in shallow water.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich soil or a boggy margin.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. & SE. Australia, New Zealand
Climate
temperate

About

Hydrocotyle tripartita is a perennial herb flowering with small white flowers that comes from New Zealand and the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. It has small and vivid green creeping leaves on vertical stems.

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 tripartita 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.

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