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Helxine soleirolii Req. |
Common names: | Baby's tears (English) Happiness-in-the-home (English) Mind-your-own-business (English) Mother-of-thousands (English) |
Description: | Creeping herb forming dense mats. Stems 5-20 cm, rooting freely at the nodes. Leaves 2-6 mm long, subcircular, subsessile. Male flowers with a 4-lobed perianth. Female flowers enclosed in the connate involucre; perianth shortly 4-lobed. |
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Worldwide distribution: | 1 species in the Balearic Islands, Corsica and Sardinia. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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