Author

Nichole Blanco

Ecology

Fresh or brackish shores and marshes, wet sand flats, ditches, pools, interdune swales, often in shallow water, most common near the coasts.

Family

Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family); in PLANTAGINACEAE Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html)

Flowers

Corolla 8-10m long, tube yellowish green to yellow, limb pale lavender pink to white, a darker ring within the tube about midway its length. Stamens 4, the longer pair slightly exserted.

Fruit

Capsule 4-5mm long, narrowly ovate. Seeds olive-colored, short-oblong or obliquely oblong, about 0.5mm long, shallowly alveolate-reticulate, the alveolae longer longitudinally, the longitudinal striae more conspicuous.

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Inflorescences

Solitary in the axils of one of a pair of leaves at some (not all) nodes; flower stalks at anthesis shorter than to somewhat exceeding the subtending leaves, fruiting stalks usually much longer, 1-2.5cm long; bractlets 2, linear, 2-3mm long.

Leaves

Oblanceolate, spatulate, or cuneate-obovate, succulent, glabrous, 5-15mm long, margins entire or the upper margins obscurely finely wavy; margins not toothed.

References

Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1981. Aquatic and Wetland Plants ofSoutheastern United States , Dicotyledons. The University of Georgia Press , Athens .

USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 27 November 2006). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Stems

Succulent, glabrous, (potentially) much branched, the principal branches extensively radiating and prostrate, rooting at the nodes, at length forming thick glossy green mats, the flowering branchlets decumbent or loosly ascending.

Synonyms

Bramia monnieri (L.) Drake; Lysimachia monnieri L.

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Top view of flower.	Stamens and pistil top view.
Stamens and pistil top view.	Side view of flower showing the inner and outer sepals and bractlets.
Inflorescences occur one per node.	View of a bud showing the outer and inner sepals and the pair of bractlets.
Side view of flower showing the dorsal view of the outer sepal and the two inner sepals.	Side view of flower showing outer sepals and a pair of bractlets.
View of inner sepals with the outer sepal removed.	The 4 epipetalous stamens occur in pairs, one pair longer than the other.
View of flower with one petal removed to see the epipetalous stamens.	Stigma, style and ovary with corolla and sepals removed.
View of fruit which is a capsule.	Cross-section of the ovary shows septum.
Cross-section of a mature ovary.	The calyx surrounds the fruit.
	Cross-section of stem.
View of opposite leaves.	View of leaf with glands.
Close up of leaf glands.	View of seeds in locule.
View of seeds outside of capsule.