This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Aizoaceae. No petals, but 5 sepals, which are white inside, green outside. Leaves, small, in whorls at the rooting stem-joints, broad, obtuse at apex, narrow at base. July and August.
A prostrate plant of the nature of a weed, common, growing in sterile soil, in beaten paths and cultivated ground, too humble, almost, to attract notice.
 
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