Intro: Prostrate (rarely upright), mat-forming annual of barrier island beaches and salt flats; rarely also inland in disturbed areas.

Stems: Stems branched, succulent, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile-clasping, oblong-lance-shaped with blunt tips, 1/2-1 in. long, succulent and smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers essentially sessile in leaf axils, green (pinkish-white within), consisting of 5 sepals with spine-like appendage near the tip and multiple stamens with pink anthers.

Fruits: Fruit a capsule enclosed by the persistent calyx.

Comments:

Height: 4-7 in.

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description: Prostrate (rarely upright), mat-forming annual of barrier island beaches and salt flats; rarely also inland in disturbed areas.

stems: Stems branched, succulent, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile-clasping, oblong-lance-shaped with blunt tips, 1/2-1 in. long, succulent and smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers essentially sessile in leaf axils, green (pinkish-white within), consisting of 5 sepals with spine-like appendage near the tip and multiple stamens with pink anthers.

fruits: Fruit a capsule enclosed by the persistent calyx.

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