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Garden Orach, Mountain Spinach, Sea Purslane
These striking shrubs accent a desert garden with clumps of silvery foliage, often with a felted or dusty texture. Sprigs of modest flowers lead to intriguing winged fruit bracts in some species.
Sea Purslane
Sesuvium portulacastrum
Mat-forming, sprawling, profusely branched, fleshy seaside plant. Flowers: 3/4" (2 cm), star-like, with 5 pointed, petal-like sepals; bright pink inside, green outside; arise on stalks from leaf axils.
Western Sea Purslane [English]: Sesuvium verrucosum
Western Seapurslane [English]: Sesuvium verrucosum
Western Seapurslane [English]: Sesuvium sessile
Western Sedge [English]: Carex occidentalis
Western Seepweed [English]: Suaeda calceoliformis ...
Sea Bindweed, Sea Buckthorn, Sea Carrot, Sea Campion, Sea Clover, Sea Club-rush, Sea Couch, Sea Fern Grass, Sea Heath, Sea Holly, Sea Kale, Sea Knotgrass, Sea Mayweed, Sea Milkwort, Sea Mouse-ear, Sea Pea, Sea Pearlwort, Sea Plantain, Sea Purslane, ...
Professor Hulme, in Familiar Wild Flowers, speaks of a variety which he calls the SEA PURSLANE (Atriplex portulacoides), common enough on the sea-shores of England and Ireland, though much less so in Scotland.
halimifolia (Sea Purslane), the best known, attaining a height of 6 to 12 feet. B. patagonica (Groundsell Tree) is handsome in foliage, with white flower-heads, borne in profusion. It is said to make an effective hedge-plant. B.
 See also: Purslane, Green, Pink, Lavender, May
  
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