Pilea microphylla

Common Names: Artillery fern, Artillery plant

Named by: Frederik Michael Liebmann (1851)

Native Area: Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

*: ‘microphylla’ means small leaf

Cultivars and Hybrids: Pilea microphylla 'Variegata'