Hydrocotyle vulgaris

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Read about Hydrocotyle vulgaris in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Linn., offered abroad: creeping or floating, rooting at the nodes: lvs. orbicular, 1 in. or less across, crenate or slightly lobed, centrally attached, the petioles surpassing the peduncles: fls. minute, white, in 2 or 3 whorls or in a single umbel: marshes and bogs, and edges of ponds. Eu. L. H. B.


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Hydrocotyle vulgaris
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Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Apiales
Family: Araliaceae
Genus: Hydrocotyle
Species: H. vulgaris

Binomial name
Hydrocotyle vulgaris

Hydrocotyle vulgaris, also known as Marsh Pennywort, is a small creeping perennial herb native to N. Africa, Europe and west to the Caspian region; in Britain it is the only native Hydrocotyle.

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