Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hydrocotyle umbellata
water pennywort, manyflower marsh pennywort, dollarweed
Stems are slender or succulent, with leaves 5-75mm in diameter. The fruit is ellipsoid.(Flora of Panama 2013).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Hydrocotyle
Species
umbellata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hydrocotyle caffra Meisn.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Wet places throughout the temperate and warmer Americas (Flora of Panama 2013).
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- WFO (2021) World Flora Online. Published on the Internet. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/ WFO (2021): World Flora Online. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hydrocotyle umbellata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=807. Accessed 15 May 2026.