English: Damascisa sweetjuice; Lotus sweetjuice.
Synonym: Mollugo hirta.
Region: Eurasia, Africa; introduced in many other places.
Habitat: seasonally inundated land.
Uses: medicine; young leaves as a vegetable.
BotanyProstrate to somewhat upright annual herb;
Stem: 30 oto 35 centimeters long; coated in feltlike whitish hairs.
Leaves: oval or spade-shaped; in whorls about the stem; few mm to 3 cm long.
Inflorescence: tight cluster of five to ten small flowers.
Flowers: 5 woolly sepals; no petals.
Fruit: oval capsule; ± 4 mm long.