UMBELLIFERjE PARSLEY FAMILY 



Hydrocotyle umbellata, L. 



White Water Pennywort, Sheep Rot, 



Marsh Pennywort, Water-navelwort, 

 June- July White Rot, Water-grass. 



Hydrocotyle: Greek denoting water and a flat cup, because 



the leaves of some of the species are cup-shaped. 

 Umbellata: Latin diminutive for a shade. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: marshes. 



THE PLANT: creeping; the stems several inches long; the 

 underground branches with tubers, the above-ground 

 hairless. 



THE LEAVES: erect or nearly so; shield-shaped; more or less 

 heart-shaped at the base; without hairs on either side; 

 seven to eleven lobed; on petioles. 



THE FLOWERS: small, in umbels, on slender stems. 

 THE FRUIT: called a mericarp; strongly notched. 



A very low plant of the damp, peaty ground, that tries 

 to hide its flat-topped, feathery clusters of small, whitish 

 flowers under its small, nasturtium-like leaves. 



UMBELLIFERjE PARSLEY FAMILY 



Ptilimnium capillaceum, (Mich.) Raf. 



White 



Mock Bishop-Weed. 

 June-September 



Ptilimnium: probably from Greek for a feather, alluding 



to the fine division of the leaves. 

 Capillaceum: Latin for hair-like. 



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