Scientific Name: Centella cordifolia

Common Name: swampwort

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Apiaceae

Form Description: Perennial herb with creeping stems or rhizomes.

Flowers: Flowers very small, white to pink, or red, often in threes.

Fruit: Woody capsule

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsClarenceDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
RiparianSedgeland and Wetland
Habitat Notes

Widespread; locally abundant in swamps and margins of slowly flowing streams.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Poorly-drained

Frost Tolerance

Tender

General Notes

Needs plenty of soil moisture.

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Cuttings, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Not generally propagated from seed.

Cutting & Division Information

Propagate from cuttings or by division of stems with adventitious roots.