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Habit Plants with few stems, stout, succulent-coriaceous.
Stems

ascending to weakly erect, simple or few-branched, 15–50 cm × 3–6 mm, internodes of main stem 10–55 mm.

Leaves

main stem leaves evenly spaced, of similar size on all stems;

blade lanceolate to ovate, 12–28 × 7–15 mm, apex acuminate.

Pedicels

2–3 mm.

Flowers

sepals ovate, 4–7 mm, apex obtuse to acute.

Capsules

5–8 × 5–10 mm, fleshy.

Seeds

dark reddish brown, 2–4 mm, dull.

Honckenya peploides subsp. robusta

Phenology Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat Sea beaches, sandy flats, and dunes above high tide
Elevation 0-10 m (0-0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CT; MA; MD; ME; NH; NJ; NY; NB; NF; NS; PE; QC
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Discussion

Subspecies robusta is possibly extirpated from Delaware and Virginia and now listed as rare/endangered in Maryland and New Jersey.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 5, p. 140.
Parent taxa Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Alsinoideae > Honckenya > Honckenya peploides
Sibling taxa
H. peploides subsp. diffusa, H. peploides subsp. major
Synonyms Arenaria peploides var. robusta, H. peploides var. robusta
Name authority (Fernald) Hultén: Fl. Alaska Yukon 4: 677. (1944)
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