Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hydrocotyle hirta
Common name
Hairy pennywort
Family
Araliaceae
Where found
A variety of habitats, including forest and woodland, usually in moist shaded sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere. Many Victorian records just south of NSW along the entire southern boundary of the area covered by this key.
Notes
Perennial herb, often loosely mat-forming, prostrate (rarely almost erect). Stems hairy. Leaves alternating along the stem, round to kidney shaped, 6-50 mm in diameter, shallowly or deeply 5- 7-lobed, the lobes blunt, margins scalloped and toothed; stalk 8–150 mm long, usually quite hairy and appearing white. Flowers small, with 5 petals, pale yellow, often red dotted. Flower clusters 3–5 mm in diameter, about 15–40 flowered. Flowers late summer.
Family was Apiaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hydrocotyle~hirta (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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