Scientific Name: Hydrocotyle callicarpa

Common Name: tiny pennywort

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Araliaceae

Form Description: A small prostrate annual herb with erect or ascending stems 2-8 cm high.

Flowers: 6-12 minute white to purple flowers in each umbel.

Fruit: Woody capsule – dry, indehiscent; 1mm long, black when ripe.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonCentral HighlandsClarenceDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Grassland
Habitat Notes

Local in open and dry places; roadbanks.

Site Tolerance

Dry, Moist, Shady

Soil Tolerance

Loam, Well-drained

Propagation Calendar

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  • Sowing Month
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  • Cutting Month
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Propagation Method
Seed, Division

Seed Information

Seed Collection

As seed collection is tedious propagation is generally by division, which is easy.

Seed Treatment Method

Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.

Seed Treatment Notes

No treatment required.

Cutting & Division Information

May be propagated by division.