Whorled Marshpennywort
Hydrocotyle verticillatanative · Hill Country
Whorled Marshpennywort is a perennial wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1 ft tall and 5 ft wide. It wants part shade to shade and high water. Blooms green and white in spring and summer.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Part shade to shade (2–4 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- High
- Height
- 1 ft
- Spread
- 5 ft
- Bloom
- Spring, Summer · green, white
- Soil
- Recorded on loam, moist, mud, poor drainage
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesLimestone Cut PlainSan Antonio Prairie
179 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.