OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sesuvium maritimum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Sesuvium maritimum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 069-01-002:

Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sesuvium maritimum

 

COMMON NAME:
Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane


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image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sema3_001_lvd

        

image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

Keith Bradley    kab_s_maritimum_0293

April    Monroe County    FL

Everglades National Park

Similar to S. portulacastrum but flowers sessile, with only 5 stamens, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

Keith Bradley    kab_s_maritimum_0311

April    Monroe County    FL

Everglades National Park

Plant succulent. Leaf blades spatulate to ovate, 1-2.5cm, bases tapering, per Flora of North America.

image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

Keith Bradley    kab_s_maritimum_1245

May    Monroe County    FL

Everglades National Park

More erect than S. portulacastrum, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

Keith Bradley    kab_s_maritimum_1247

May    Monroe County    FL

Everglades National Park

image of Sesuvium maritimum, Small Sea-purslane, Slender Sea-purslane

Keith Bradley    kab_s_maritimum_1255

May    Monroe County    FL

Everglades National Park

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sesuvium maritimum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Sesuvium maritimum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 069-01-002:
Sesuvium maritimum   FAMILY Aizoaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sesuvium maritimum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4091

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Island end flats and sea beaches, salt flats; less typically inland (AL, LA) in saline marshes or seeps (associated with salt domes), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Petioles clasping
Leaves do not have stipules.

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Pink or purplish
Flowers are sessile.
5 sepals
Petals absent
5 stamens (no petaloid staminodes)
Ovary half-inferior
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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