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Hydrocotyle umbellata
Also called Water Pennywort, Many Flowered Marsh Pennywort, Many Flowered Water Pennywort, Marsh Pennywort, Dollarweed, Many Flower Marsh Pennywort, Manyflower Marsh Pennywort
Hydrocotyle umbellata is a creeping or floating aquatic herb native to the Americas, grown in ponds, wet sand and shallow water, and widely known as a weed outside its range. Keep its roots wet or submerged and give it plenty of light.
Hydrocotyle umbellata is an aquatic plant that thrives in wet, sandy habitat. It is known by several common names, including manyflower marshpennywort, dollarweed, water pennywort (in Canada), and as acariçoba (in Brazil). It is native to North America and parts of South America. At the north of its range, in Canada, the species is only known from three lakes located in southwestern Nova Scotia. Most of the Canadian population is found within Kejimkujik National Park. In Brazil, acariçoba has applications in herbal medicine with purported anxiolytic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. It can also be found growing as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed on other continents. It is an edible weed that can be used in salads or as a pot herb.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hydrocotyle umbellata 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.
