Stinking Pennywort - a native (Hydrocotyle laxiflora)

Family: Araliaceae (Star-hair family). It was formerly included in the carrot family.

Other names: Bush Pennies (because of the often yellowish penny-sized leaves).

Native.

Occurrence: Common.

Identification:

• it has round indented leaves - the leaves are about the size of a 20c. coin
• the flowers are in ball-shaped clusters, with all of the flower stalks radiating from a central point
• the flowers do not have showy petals
• the flowers have an unpleasant smell (and hence "stinking pennywort").

Photos: Castlemaine.