Common name: Sea Sandwort
Scientific name: Honckenya peploides 冰漆姑
Genus: Honckenya 冰漆姑屬
Family: Caryophyllaceae 石竹科, pink or carnation family
Remarks: It looks a bit like Sea-milkwort, Lysimachia maritima 海乳草 (belonged to Primulaceae 報春花科, primrose family), but sea sandwort has thicker stems with thicker leaves (like a green plastic toy plant), small white flowers at the shoot tips, and grows mainly on drier sand shingle.
Origin: native
Date: 28th July
424 A succulent maritime, dioecious perennial.
426. Plant with long, creeping stolons. Leaves glabrous, fleshy, 6-18mm.
427 Fruits globular, 8mm diameter, longer than sepals.
