Sesuvium portulacastrum
Sea Purslane
- Family: Aizoaceae
- Form: A succulent, herbaceous, sprawling ground cover
- Leaves: Fleshy, simple, opposite, entire. Light green, glabrous,oblique base, elliptic. Petiole is reddish in color. About 1¼ in. in length
- Stem/Bark: Glabrous, reddish in color, sometimes rooting at nodes
- Flower: Small and solitary, various shades of pink, five petals, no sepals, axillary
- Fruit: Small and dark
- Comments: This native plant can be observed growing on fore dunes of coastal areas. It can be distinguished from the non native purslane (Portulaca deracea) by it's perennial habit and star-shaped flowers
