Scientific name: Hydrocotyle vulgaris L.
Common name: Marsh Pennywort
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 30 cm high, but usually much smaller.
Stems: Slender and creeping, rooting at nodes.
Leaves: Leaves round, long-stalked, 1.5-2.5 cm across, hairless, slightly crenate, peltate.
Flowers: Greenish white, very small, in compact heads or 2-3 whorled on each peduncle; petals 5, free, stamens 5, ovary inferior and 2-celled.
Fruits: A schizocarp, 1.5-2 mm, broad, flattened and with thin low ridges.
Habitat: Ditches, lake-shores, marshes and wet meadows.
Distribution: Abundant.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No