A vigorous rhizomatous groundcover plant. The leaves are a rounded kidney shape and are produced on the end of stalks to about 10 cm high. The species may be mistaken for Centella, Centella cordifolia. Centella can be distinguished by its slightly scalloped leaf edge. Where the stem joins the leaf of Centella, it resembles pie where a wedge has been removed. The gap in Dichondra is more rounded