Green Carpetweed

Mollugo verticillata L. Sp. PI. 89. 1753
}Mollugo dichotoma Schrank, PI. Rar. Hort. Monac. pi. 64. 1821.
Wlollugo arenaria H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 20. 1823.
^Mollugo Schronkii Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 1: 391. 1824.
Pharnaceum verticillatum Spreng. Syst. 1: 949. 1825.
^Pharnaceum arenarium Spreng. Syst. 1: 949. 1825.
Mollugo verticillata scrobiculata Camb. in St.-Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 2: 170. 1830.
Mollugo verticillata lalifolia Fenzl. Ann. Wiener Mus. 1: 376. 1836.
Mollugo juncca Fenzl, Ann. Wiener Mus. 1: 378. 1836.
Mollugo verticillata scrobiculata asvs juncea Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 14 2 : 242. 1872.
A glabrous, dichotomously branched, prostrate or ascending, annual herb; leaves whorled, 3-6 or more at each node, the blades obovate, spatulate-lanceolate, or linear, unequal, 7-35 mm. long, 0.8-1 1 mm. broad, obtuse, rounded, or acutish at the apex, tapering at the base into the petiole; flowers 2-5 from each node, subtended by foliaceous bracts; pedicels 3-14 mm. long; sepals oblong or elliptic, 1.8-2.5 mm. long, 0.6-1.1 mm. broad; stamens usually 3, occasionally 4; capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.5-2.1 mm. in diameter, 20-30-seeded; seeds dark-brown, reniform, 0.6 mm. long, brown, ridged along the back and sides.
Typi: locality: Virginia.
DISTRIBUTION: Throughout temperate and tropical North America; also in South America and
World.