Plant Profile: Hydrocotyle americana

Water Pennywort is a small, creeping native species that thrives in damp environments, including bogs, seeps, marshy fields, wet woodlands, and the edges of lakes. This plant is distributed across eastern North America, ranging from Canada down to South Carolina, with its presence noted in the western Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. It propagates through stolons that take root in the soil and develop small tubers. Preferring cool summer temperatures, Water Pennywort flourishes in moist to wet conditions.

It can be cultivated in one-gallon pots, either in full sun or partial shade, with water levels reaching up to two inches above the crown, or it can be planted in bogs or near streams and ponds.