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Aizoaceae
Sesuvium

Sesuvium maritimum (Walter) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg. Common name: Small Sea-Purslane, Slender Sea-Purslane. Phenology: May-Dec (-Apr). Habitat: Island end flats and sea beaches, salt flats; less typically inland (AL, LA) in saline marsh or seep (associated with salt domes). Distribution: NY south to s. FL, west to TX, south to Mexico (TAM, VER); West Indies.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Bah, C, F, Fl5, FNA4, G, GW2, Il, K4, Mex, NE, NY, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Tx, Va, WH3, Boetsch (2002), Bohley, Winter, & Kadereit (2017); > Sesuvium maritimum (Walter) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenb. — NS; > Sesuvium sessile Pers. — NS; Pharnaceum maritimum Walter. Basionym: Pharnaceum maritimum Walter 1788

Links to other floras: = Sesuvium maritimum - FNA4

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Great Plains: FACW
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

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.

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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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