Marin’s Native Aizoaceae, Western Sea-purslane (Sesuvium verrucosum)
by Doreen Smith
This mainly Central Valley native is unusual in Marin. It has colonized the drying sub-saline shores of the westernmost Las Gallinas Sanitary District Water Reclamation Pond. Here it is a late-summer-flowering species.
Photos by Vernon and Doreen Smith.
Sesuvium verrucosum – (western sea-purslane)
Sesuvium verrucosum – (western sea-purslane)