Scientific Name: Soleirolia soleirolii
Common Name: baby's tears
Family Name: Urticaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Plant Type: Annual, Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Ground cover, Hanging basket, Indoor plant, Rock garden
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Orbicular, Entire
Flowers: Flowers solitary, Green, Red, May-Jun
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Jul
Key ID Features:
Stems low growing, highly branched, a quick-spreading ground cover but limited by cold locally; leaves rounded, shiny, and only about 5mm long.