Photo credit: Christina Mild
- succulent perennial with prostrate or trailing stems
- leaves opposite on lower stem, alternate above, thick, fleshy, ovate-lanceolate, usually 1/2 - 1 inch long
- flowers in a short spike-like raceme, with 4 small pale yellow petals
- occurs in saline soils near coast as well as at inland saline sites
- 7 counties in coastal and southern Texas; also Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon
