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Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Hydrocotyle laxiflora |
| Common Name: | stinking pennywort |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Ground Cover (up to 30 cm) |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade, Shade
Moist, Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | 20 cm x 2 m |
| Foliage: | Creeping herb to 20 cm tall and 1-2 m wide. Leaves have fine hairs and are round, up to 50 mm wide, with scallop-like lobes. |
| Flowers: | Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowerheads are round clusters up to 20 mm wide, containing 30-50 tiny pale greenish-yellow flowers, October-December. The flowers have a strong unpleasant odour, hence the plant's common name.. |
| General Comments: | Grow in shady sites. Spreads by rhizomes. Perennial. Grows as loose mats, forming roots at leaf nodes. Tolerates a wide range of conditions. Frog Habitat. |
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