Floating Pennywort

(Hydrocotyle ranunculoides)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers

Growing habit: Spreading aquatic perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots, roots from nodes

Leaf anatomy: Simple, orbicular to orbicular-reniform, palmately lobed, crenate margins, 3-5 lobes

Reproduction: Short flowering stalks, pale green to white, 5 petals, 5-13 flowers per stalk, small achene fruit

^{References: Illinois Wildflowers}