🌿 Gotu Kola
Centella asiatica
herbs perennial groundcover
🗺️ Zones
4-9
🧪 Soil pH
5.5-7.0 (moist to wet soil)
📏 Spacing
6-12 in. apart (groundcover, spreads by runners)
📅 Days to Maturity
60-90 days (from planting divisions); harvest leaves every 2-3 months after establishment
🍴 Edible Parts
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🤝 Companions (5)
🤝 watercress
Both thrive in perpetually wet soil and create a lush, moisture-retaining groundcover together — perfect companions for pond edges and bog gardens.
Gotu kola flourishes as a groundcover beneath taro's broad leaves, which provide shade and maintain the high humidity and soil moisture both plants need.
Comfrey's deep roots bring up minerals that gotu kola benefits from; comfrey leaves make excellent mulch to retain the moisture gotu kola requires.
🤝 lemon grass
Lemongrass provides light shade and wind protection for gotu kola; its clumping habit doesn't compete with gotu kola's spreading groundcover.
🤝 mints
Both prefer consistently moist soil and partial shade; they create a dense, aromatic groundcover together that suppresses weeds effectively.
⚠️ Keep Apart (0)
No antagonistic relationships recorded yet.
💊 Medicinal Uses
Contains asiaticoside, madecassoside, and asiatic acid (triterpenoid saponins). Key Ayurvedic and TCM herb for wound healing, skin regeneration, and circulatory health. Enhances collagen synthesis. Used for varicose veins, venous insufficiency, anxiety, cognitive function, and leprosy. Neuroprotective and adaptogenic properties.