What surprises us most with this plant is the fact that is NOT a common houseplant. It grows perfectly well in bowl on the windowsill and looks just charming there. Its foliage is bright green and the leaves stand upright - what makes them look like bucklers (someone here once smuggled a police-smurf into a pot of this plant. it absolutely fitted with the leaf-bucklers). Like with all pennyworts the flowers are not worth mentioning. The foliage alone is so beautiful that we regard this plant superior to our native one. In the wild it grows from Southamerica to the souther US.

If you plant this pennywort into your pond it will form a lawn it just a few weeks. For hibernation it is sufficent to take a few cuttings and keep them in a bowl on the windowsill. The plant doesn`t mind if it stands in a cool or a heated room.