Stems to 60 cm high; taproot slender. Flowers solitary or in clusters of up to 4 within the inflorescence. Flowers mostly spring.
VVP, GipP, OtP, HSF. Also naturalised SA, NSW, Tas. Occasional in near-coastal saltmarsh communities and against brackish streams and lakes on heavy soils further inland, rarely far from settlement (e.g. Altona, Beeac areas).
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
