Hydrocotyle verticillata
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Hydrocotyle verticillata, also known as Whorled Pennywort, and Shield Pennywort, is a flowering plant
found in South and North America and the West Indies. The creeping plants with unusual leaves
give it its common names. It grows in places that are marshy, boggy, and wet.
Hydrocotyle verticillata is used in aquaria
, where it is undemanding but prefers a good substrate
, and at least moderate light. It benefits from additional carbon dioxide
. It is widely used as a foreground plant.
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
found in South and North America and the West Indies. The creeping plants with unusual leaves
Leaves
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give it its common names. It grows in places that are marshy, boggy, and wet.
Hydrocotyle verticillata is used in aquaria
Aquarium
An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...
, where it is undemanding but prefers a good substrate
Substrate (biology)
In biology a substrate is the surface a plant or animal lives upon and grows on. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock can be substrate for another animal that lives on top of the algae. See also substrate .-External...
, and at least moderate light. It benefits from additional carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
. It is widely used as a foreground plant.