Japan Flora: Annual; stems erect, branched, glabrous, 30-50 cm. long, with suberect branches; leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly so, sometimes linear, 5-10 cm. long, 3-15 mm. wide, acute to subacute, narrowed at base, entire or few-toothed, glabrous, white-scurfy while young, the petioles 5-15 mm. long; flowers fasciculate in upper axils, forming a terminal spike; pistillate bracts sessile in fruit, broadly ovate-deltoid, acute, 3-nerved, not tubercled, entire or subentire, 3-4 mm. long and as wide; seeds black, orbicular, flat, lustrous, about 1.5 mm. across. Sandy seashores;

Hokkaido, Honshu. Kuriles, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Korea.