Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hydrocotyle bonariensis

Flower cluster and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, south of Bermagui

Flower cluster and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Comerong Island near Nowra

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near The Entrance, NSW

Line drawings. a. flowering stem; seed case. K Maling, University of Sydney, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Coast pennywort, A pennywort

Family

Araliaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, lawns, cliff faces, coastal dunes, along streams, and  swamps. Coastal..Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb, prostrate, stems creeping and rooting at the nodes, hairless.. Flower stalks to 0.4 m long. Leaves arising from the nodes, single or in clusters, peltate, round, mostly 3-12 cm long, 30–120 mm wide, fleshy, hairless, margins with shallow lobes, margins scalloped. Flowers small, with 5 white to creamy yellow petals. Clusters many-flowered, 10–60 mm in diameter. Flowering: throughout the year, especially October–February.

Family was Apiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~bonariensis (accessed 19 January, 2021)