Amazing Flower

The coin grass plants native to Asian countries but now naturalized in elsewhere as a herb. It is commonly found on grass land, paddy field, along land near the tanks(lakes) in Sri Lanka. Also it is cultivate as a ornamental plant. The plant widely used in traditional Chinese medicine in East Asian Countries.

Common Classification

 Common Names Whorled Penny-wort, Gold Coin Grass, Coin grass, Jin Qian Cao, Money grass
 Scientific Name Hydrocotyle verticillata
 Sinhala Name Wal Gotukola, Kassi Gas

Scientific Classification

 Family Araliaceae
 Genus Hydrocotyle
 Species H. verticillata Synonym Centella homalocarpa, Hydrocotyle australis

Ecology

 Category Weed
 Growth Habit Small-Shrub
 Duration Annual
 Origin Introduced
 Status Natural