Japan Flora: Prostrate or decumbent somewhat fleshy densely branched annual; stems and branches terete, the nodes with long white curved hairs, the internodes with two longitudinal rows of hairs while young; leaves spreading, glabrous, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, obtuse, sparsely crenate-toothed or subentire, gradually narrowed to a short-petioled or sub- sessile base, the midrib rather prominent; glomerules solitary or few, many-flowered, axillary, sessile, globose, the bracts and bracteoles minute; perianth-segments 5, white-scari이is, more or less lustrous, smooth, glabrous, 2-2.5 mm. long, narrowly ovate, acute, with a prominent midrib especially toward the top; stamens 2-3, less than half as long as the perianth, the anthers minute, yellow; utricles obtusely margined, slightly shorter than the perianth, obcordate; seeds reddish brown, about 1 mm. across, shining. July-Sept Naturalized in the warmer parts of our area.

A pantropic weed.