Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Tiny
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: Australia and New Zealand
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Runners
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Uncommon

About

This creeping plant blankets the damp forest floors of Australia and New Zealand. Its kidney-shaped leaves grow on stems that sprout new roots wherever they touch the soil.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Dichondra
Species: Dichondra repens