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Marsilea hirsuta
Also called Short Fruit Nardoo
Rough waterclover (Marsilea hirsuta) is a small aquatic fern from the Marsileaceae family, native to floodplains and swamps in Australia, with clover-like fronds. Keep its roots moist or submerged in shallow water to grow it well.
Marsilea hirsuta, known as the nardoo, is a species of aquatic fern in the family Marsileaceae. A widespread species with wide clover like fronds, found in flood plains and swamps in Australia. This plant was first mentioned in the scientific literature in 1810, in the Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, authored by Scottish botanist, Robert Brown. One of the many plants listed with a type as "(J.T.) v.v.".
Marsilea ancyclopoda · Nardoo · Dwarf waterclover · Australian Water Clover · European waterclover · Hairy waterclover · Waterclover
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marsilea hirsuta 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.
