Low growing, leafy plant forms patches from creeping rootstalks. Plant glabrous, lower stems are red. Leaves are opposite, oblanceolate, 9 mm long, 2 mm wide, somewhat rubbery / succulent. Flowers are small, pinkish in colour, comprised of 5 sepals, 6 mm in diameter.
I measured plants to 7 cm tall.
Habitat is saline meadows and slough margins. Listed as common in the Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.
Photographed these plants June 23rd and 25th in a saline, wet spot about 25 km southeast of Regina, Saskatchewan.
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