Bacopa

Bacopa monnieri

Plantaginaceae

A pond-edge succulent of Ayurvedic memory folklore — a small white flower, a bitter leaf, a slow herb.

Ayurvedic creeping herb (brahmi). Often confused in shops with gotu kola, which is also sold as brahmi.

Parts used: Aerial parts
Traditional notes: Mental fog · Study folklore · Traditional rasayana · Anxiety of the long kind
Grow · USDA 6b: Tender perennial, USDA 8–11; a pond-margin or aquarium pot north Cuttings root in water in days. Seed is slower. In work: May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep
Harvest: Aerial tips, repeatedly, in the warm season. Dry out of sun.

A tray of wet sand and a cutting is a farm.
It is not gotu kola. Check the Latin on the bag.
Bitter is the quality test. A sweet ‘brahmi’ candy is marketing.

Safety

Bradycardia caution in some texts Empty-stomach shots if you are nauseous

Lore

Sanskrit brahmi is named for Brahma, which is already a large claim for a mud creeper. Students in India still meet it as a memory herb; Western nootropic blogs found it later and spelled it wrong. The other brahmi is gotu kola, a different plate. The pond does not care which name you use; the shop should.

The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.