Description - A small, stout, prostrate Goosefoot, with an overall reddish colour. The flowers form small red bunches in the axils of the stems, as it sprawls across the shingle.

Habitat - This plant has a very restricted habitat, growing in one place only in the Channel Islands, in a narrow band on the edge of a brackish pond between two pebble banks on the tidal island of Lihou. It is said to require salt marsh grazing , which it does not get at present in this position, however, it has managed here for many years, so it will probably survive.

Comment - A very rare plant nationally, occurring now only in the Thames estuary, and probably extinct from Norfolk and Suffolk, due to a decline in its favoured habitats

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