Stems prostrate to erect, 10–50 cm. Leaf blades fleshy, pale green and glabrous above, white-farinose beneath, lanceolate to ovate, 1–4 cm long with sinuate margins. Inflorescence glomerules, 1–2 mm diameter, in bracteate, axillary and terminal spikes. Flowers: calyx mostly 5-parted, segments green, nearly distinct, ca. 0.6 mm long; stamen 1. Seed flattened-orbicular, punctate, 0.6–1.1 mm, vertical and horizontal (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Drying, often saline mud around ponds, lakes, streams, roadsides; plains, valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).