Attractive creeping rhizomatous plant that roots at the nodes. Small dark green oval thickish leaves, with narrower stem leaves. Delicate waxy white/pink flowers with five petals on fine reddish stems.

Perennial. Moist sandy soils in fresh and brackish wetlands, herbfields and river margins. Tolerates salinity so it can be found in the upper reaches of estuaries, saltmarshes and muddy inlets.

It is a producer so uses the sun's energy for photosynthesis.

Photo Credit: Rod Morris. Photos available from www.rodmorris.co.nz