Appearance
It is an annual species with procumbent habits, which reaches 30 cm height. Similar to ''Paronychia capitata'' but with almost all glabrous leaves, a rigid and prominent sow, and calyx lobules with transparent margins.Blamey, Marjorie; Grey-Wilson Christopher .The stem is glabrous or pubescent, with opposite, elliptical and mucronate leaves.
The flowers grow in lateral and terminal glomerulus. They are hermaphrodite, pentamerous and actinomorphic, accompanied with scaly silver bracts bigger that themselves. The fruit is an achene.
Distribution
They can be encountred all around the Mediterranean Sea. It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.
Habitat
They can be encountred all around the Mediterranean Sea. It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.Uses
It is used stewed, as a diuretic and blood purifier, and as a plaster to cure wounds.García Muñoz, B. .References:
Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia.
