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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Apiaceae
Hydrocotyle americana L.
American marsh pennywort, marsh pennywort
Hydrocotyle: from Greek hydor, "water," and kotyle, "a small cup"
americana: for America
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | creeping, perennial forb; stems very thin; rooting from stems nodes |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted; inflorescence an unbranched, flat umbel with 2-7 stalkless flower-groups per umbel (no umbellets); blooms June-Sept. |
| Fruit: | dry, splitting into 2 seeds - fruit: seed: |
| Leaf: | long, round to broadly oval, 1/4"-2 1/4" wide, 6-10 shallow lobes but not divided |
| Habitat: | moist; marshes, springs, swamps |
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