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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 (grown as), 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: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Orbicular, Ovate, Reniform, 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 alternate, most ovate-rounded, 3-5mm long, shiny, pubescent. |