WorldFloraDB - Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Characteristics

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 15 cm tall. It is slightly hairy and the stems are square. It creeps along the ground putting down roots and forming mats. The leaves are opposite and round and taper to the base. There are rounded teeth. The flowers have yellow-green bracts. They form on top of a dense cluster of leaves.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

Spread

barochory

Mature width (meter)

0.5

Mature height (meter)

0.15

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in shady places near the edges of streams. It if often in damp and acidic soil.

More

Acid soils on the banks of springs and wet shady mountainsides.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves are used in salads and soups.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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Vigor	-
Productivity	-