Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

2013
Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Araliaceae
Hydrocotyle americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Apiaceae
Hydrocotyle americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Apiaceae
140-01-005
Hydrocotyle americana

Common Name:
American Water-pennywort

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina
Uncommon (rare south of VA) (NC Watch List) (SC Rare)
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Look for it in bogs, marshes, seepages, cliffs and ledges where wet by seepage or spray from waterfalls, sometimes roadside ditches, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate

Flower:
Summer/Fall
White/Greenish
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p114
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p206
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p112
Wildflowers of Tennessee p178




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August
Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District

 

"What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by the morning sun, like bumblebees quivering on harp wires? What then?" — Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods