Water Buttons

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Scientific Name: Cotula coronopifolia
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Water Buttons

General Description:
Low growing, spreading herb. Leaves and stems are semi-succulent. The leaves are usually jagged but sometimes smooth-edged. Flowerheads are small yellow, and button-like. Flowers in winter and spring.

Further Details:
Hairless perennial growing from stolons (runners/horizontal stems). Leaves are spearhead-shaped (lanceolate) or broadly oblong, up to 5 cm long. The leaf edges are smooth, lobed or jagged (incised), with a base which is clasping or enclosing the stem. Flowerheads are yellow, dome-shaped, without petals, and with rings of oblong bracts (outer parts of flower) in 2 rows.

Soils:
Grows on a wide range of soils from sandy loams to clays.

Habitat and Notes:
Restricted to wet soils that are periodically flooded. Exists in moderately saline, waterlogged soils, and may form large mats over shallow water.

Image: Water Buttons - flower
Water Buttons - flower
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Water Buttons - plants

Scientific Name:	Cotula coronopifolia	Water Buttons
General Description:	Low growing, spreading herb. Leaves and stems are semi-succulent. The leaves are usually jagged but sometimes smooth-edged. Flowerheads are small yellow, and button-like. Flowers in winter and spring.
Further Details:	Hairless perennial growing from stolons (runners/horizontal stems). Leaves are spearhead-shaped (lanceolate) or broadly oblong, up to 5 cm long. The leaf edges are smooth, lobed or jagged (incised), with a base which is clasping or enclosing the stem. Flowerheads are yellow, dome-shaped, without petals, and with rings of oblong bracts (outer parts of flower) in 2 rows.
Soils:	Grows on a wide range of soils from sandy loams to clays.
Habitat and Notes:	Restricted to wet soils that are periodically flooded. Exists in moderately saline, waterlogged soils, and may form large mats over shallow water.