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AKA Synoms is also known as pinkweed, cowgrass, birdweed, stonegrass, centinode, ninety-knot, nine-joints, allseed, bird's tongue, sparrow-tongue, red-robin, armstrong, hogweed, pigweed, pigrush, swynel grass, swine's grass, doorweed and matgrass.
Description
Little brown pointed fruits of a characteristic shape are freely produced after the tiny pink flowers. Like Common Knotgrass it is a low lying or prostrate plant , a littel more robust in all parts. Leaves are larger and almost fleshy, the pink flowers produce shiny brown seeds, which protrude from the sepals, (unlike the hidden seeds of its common relative Polygonum aviculare).
Habitat
A local plant unpredictable in its occurrence, of sandy or shingly upper sea shores.
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