Flora

Hydrocotyle bonariensis

Largeleaf pennywort

Largeleaf pennywort ( Hydrocotyle bonariensis) produces one large, rounded leaf at the end of a long stem. Because it spreads vegetatively by sending out runners, it gathers in large patches that may consist of thousands of genetically identical individuals. A separate stem rises from each individual to form a branched grouping of small flowers.

References

Evans, J. (1992). The Effect of Local Resource Availability and Clonal Integration on Ramet Functional Morphology in Hydrocotyle bonariensis. Oecologia, 89(2), 265-276.

Scott Clark

I'm a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the Crawford Lab at the University of Houston. My primary research interests are in plant invasion ecology, microbiome interactions and plant community assembly.

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