Any of a number of plants with rounded leaves.
('wall pennywort') a small Eurasian plant that grows in crevices (Umbilicus rupestris, family Crassulaceae).Also called cotyledon or navelwort
('marsh' or 'water pennywort') a small creeping or floating plant of marshy places (Hydrocotyle vulgaris, family Umbelliferae).Also called navelwort
Example sentencesExamples
- Water-starwort makes its particular kind of dimpling, and marsh pennywort makes another.
- The seeds of pennywort are used occasionally as food by waterfowl.
- You hike through that tunnel of live oak, cool shade and wren song, then climb the stairs that top out on a high dune strewn with pennywort.
- Smaller herbs are marsh pennywort and camphor weed (both also common in U.S. wetlands).
- I just went to a new international farmers market and saw fresh pennywort for the first time.