This is a very low growing plant of the muddy shores. It grows in the shorter vegetation of the salt marsh and you often need to stoop down to see the myriads of small pink flowers without stalks.

It is almost entirely coastal in its distribution and is found at virtually every part of the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish coasts. You can sometimes also find it where salt is mined inland.

LHS: Red Rocks salt marsh 28th June 2005 RHS Lindisfarne 15th July 2006

Added on October 31st 2005, updated 27th January 2009, updated 2nd April 2010