Hydrocotyle verticillata
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Hydrocotyle verticillata, also known as Whorled Pennywort, and Shield Pennywort, is a flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 found in South and North America and the West Indies. The creeping plants with unusual leaves
Leaves
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 give it its common names. It grows in places that are marshy, boggy, and wet.
Hydrocotyle verticillata is used in aquaria
Aquarium
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, where it is undemanding but prefers a good substrate
Substrate (biology)
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, and at least moderate light. It benefits from additional carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide
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. It is widely used as a foreground plant.

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