Kidney weed
Dichondra repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Convolvulaceae
Also called Wonderlawn, Wonder Lawn, Tom Thumb, Mercury Bay weed
Formerly Serresia asarifolia, Steripha reniformis
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mascarenes, S. & E. Australia, New ZealandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from Australian Ecosystems, one source
- Height
- 20 cmRead from Australian Ecosystems, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Australian Ecosystems, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from Australian Ecosystems and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Australian Ecosystems green; Wikipedia green, yellow
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Spanish
- Centavito, Oreja de ratón
- Hebrew
- דיכונדרה ירוקה
- Slovak
- dichondra plazivá
- French
- Dichondra rampant
- Simplified Chinese
- 草, 落地金钱, 金钱草
- Chinese
- 马蹄金, 小金钱草, 马踢金
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Australian Ecosystems, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Dichondra repens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.