Aizoaceae

(Carpetweed family)

Herbs with opposite entire leaves, perfect flowers.

Mollugo verticillata

Carpetweed

Summer annual.  Stems green, smooth. Branches along ground in all directions from swollen nodes, forming flat mats. Smooth, tongue like leaves in spread clusters of five to six at each joint. Flowers small, white Seed is orange-red. Found in cultivated soils.