Carpetweed

(Mollugo verticillata)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Prostrate summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous, little-branched roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Whorled around stem, spatulate to linear-oblanceolate in shape

Reproduction: Inflorescences in clusters of 2-5 on slender stalks, pale green to white in color

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}