Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Hydrocotyle bonariensis

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)