Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Lus na pingine
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Marsh Pennywort
Hydrocotyle vulgaris
Lus na pingine
Family: Apiaceae

Flowering time: June-August. Perennial. Native.

Whorls of tiny pink flowers with 5-petals, but flowers are often absent. The small round leaves have shallow teeth and are on erect, hairy stalks attached at centre of leaves. Mat-forming growth, rooting at nodes

Found throughout most of Ireland in damp or wet habitats.

Similar: Wall Pennywort, Umbilicus rupestris has much larger leaves and tall spikes with many greenish-white flowers

Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Lus na pingine

Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Lus na pingine
Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Lus na pingine

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