Bergia trimera

Prostrate or procumbent annual, forming loose mats to c. 20 cm diam.; stems sparsely septate-hairy. Leaves subsessile, ovate, obovate or oblanceolate, 5–20 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, often glaucous; margins distantly serrulate. Flowers sessile to shortly pedicellate, densely clustered in axils; sepals 3(–4), narrowly ovate, c. 1 mm long, midrib slightly thickened, green, margins thin, entire or somewhat toothed toward apex, white or purplish; petals slightly longer and broader than sepals, pink, membranous; stamens and styles as many as other segments. Capsule globular, purplish-brown, slightly exceeding perianth. Seeds cylindric, c. 0.4 mm long, patterned by raised reticulations. Flowers mainly Jan.–Apr. (after summer floods).