Spergularia media (L.) C.Presl , it is a perennial, diffusely branched, up to 40 cm tall herb, with woody rootstock and ± glandular hairy younger parts. Leaves sessile, linear, 15-40 x 1-1.5 mm, fleshy, rarely ± fascicled, mucronate; stipules triangular-ovate, 2-3 x c. 1.5 mm, connate on young shoots for more than half their length, acute, white scarious. Inflorescence terminal, lax, non-leafy dichasial cyme. Flowers c. 8 mm in diameter, white or pink; pedicel much longer than sepals and fruit, up to 1.5 cm long, glabrous or glandular; bracts similar to stipules. Sepals oblong-ovate, 4-6 x 1.5-2.5 mm, obtuse with broad membranous margins glabrous or glandular hairy. Petals narrowly obovate, (4-) 5-7 x c. 1.5 mm, obtuse, pink or white. Stamens rarely less than 10, filaments dilated at the base, 3-4 mm long; anthers yellow, oblong, c. 1.25 mm long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, c. 2 mm long, glabrous; styles 3, ± united below. Capsule ovoid-oblong, conical, 7-9 (-11) mm long, glabrous, yellowish. Seeds brown, compressed, rounded, smooth or tubercled, c. 0.8-1 mm in diameter, mostly all winged, wings membranous, entire or ± laciniate.
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