Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle foveolata
Common name
Yellow Pennywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, rocky areas, and moist sites. Western Slopes and the Tumut district.
Notes
Spreading to erect annual herb to 0.15 m high and in diameter, usually bright green to yellowish green. Stems usually branching from the base, hairless or hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, to 20 mm in diameter, deeply divided or dissected into 3 or 5 lobes or segments each 0.2–0.6 cm long, tips 3-toothed, teeth blunt or with very short thickened points, lateral segments often 2-lobed; surfaces hairless or with a few long scattered hairs on one or both surfaces. Flowers small, with 5 yellow petals. Umbels usually stalkless, 3–6-flowered, 3–5 mm in diameter. Flowers spring and summer.
Family was Apiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~foveolata (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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