Scientific Name: Pilea nummulariifolia
Common Name: creeping Charlie
Family Name: Urticaceae
Origin: South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Horizontal
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Rugose, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: Verticillaster, Green, Pink, Can flower any month
Fruit: Achene, Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves mostly ovate and 3-6cm long when mature, margins with rounded teeth, venation palmate with three major veins (with the centre vein running the length of the leaf); petioles short, stout, yellow-green, sometimes with a reddish flush, and flattened to slightly con-cave above; stipules light green.