Intro: Prostrate to ascending, mat-forming annual of sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats and, rarely, sound-side beaches.

Stems: Stems fleshy, branching from the base, reddish, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate but clustered toward ends of branches, petiolate, round to oval with decurrent base and shallow notch at the tip, 1/2-3/4 in. long, fleshy, margins slightly wavy, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in conspicuous clusters in leaf axils, reddish-green, minute, with yellow stamens in male flowers protruding at peak flowering.

Fruits: Fruit a shiny black seed surrounded by a dark, wrinkled membrane.

Comments: Larger plants may contain over 100 stems branching from the center, attaining a diameter of more than 3 ft.

Height: 4-10 in.

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description: Prostrate to ascending, mat-forming annual of sea beaches, fore-dunes, island end flats and, rarely, sound-side beaches.

stems: Stems fleshy, branching from the base, reddish, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate but clustered toward ends of branches, petiolate, round to oval with decurrent base and shallow notch at the tip, 1/2-3/4 in. long, fleshy, margins slightly wavy, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in conspicuous clusters in leaf axils, reddish-green, minute, with yellow stamens in male flowers protruding at peak flowering.

fruits: Fruit a shiny black seed surrounded by a dark, wrinkled membrane.

comments: Larger plants may contain over 100 stems branching from the center, attaining a diameter of more than 3 ft.

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