Pennywort: A Plant Whose Time Has Come

It's official: my back yard looks like hell.  The trees and shrubs are bare, the berries have been eaten, the perennials have died back.  All that is left is pennywort.  Acres and acres of pennywort.

Okay, I exaggerate.  I don't have acres and acres.  But if I did, they would be covered with pennywort. 

From our elevated deck, the back yard looks like a sea of pennywort.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, pennywort (aka dollarweed or Hydrocotyle in Latin) is an invasive, low-growing riparian or aquatic plant that spreads by seeds and runners.  In other words, it's a weed that takes over wet areas.   

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