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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-orbicular, 3-5mm long x 2-4mm wide, margin entire, shiny, pubescent, petioles <1mm long. | |