Spergularia rubra

Annual to short-lived perennial; taproot slender to woody; stems slender, prostrate to decumbent (3–)5–30 cm long, mostly glabrous. Leaves linear-filiform, with prominent awns to 0.5 mm long, strongly fasciculate, fleshy, 4–25 mm long, 0.4–1.2 mm wide, glabrous to glandular-hairy; stipules acuminate, (2.5–)3.5–5 mm long, longer than wide, connate for much less than half their length, conspicuously silvery. Inflorescence many-flowered, leafy, cymose; pedicels at first reflexed in fruit, finally spreading, filiform, longer than sepals, glandular-hairy. Flowers 3–5 mm diam., occasionally not opening; sepals 3–4(–5) mm long, green or purplish with basal dots absent or obscurely purplish-red, the dense glandular hairs 0.15–0.25(–0.4) mm long; petals 2.4–3.8 mm long, usually shorter than sepals, uniformly rose-pink or lilac; stamens (5–)10. Capsules ovoid, equalling or slightly exceeding sepals; seeds 0.4–0.6 mm long, rugulose-tuber-culate to finely papillose, dark red-brown to grey-brown, unwinged. Flowers Jan.–Apr., Sep.–Dec.