Sesuvium maritimum(Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

slender seapurslane

WFO wfo-0001292820 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-11 / obs. 128279758
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by James (Jim) Duggan
fig. b James (Jim) Duggan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 62648204
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. c Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279808
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. d Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279653
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279715
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. f Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279736
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. g Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279781
Sesuvium maritimum, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128279843

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Sesuvium maritimum is native: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisKansasLouisianaMarylandMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SouthwestMississippiNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginiaBelizeCubaPuerto Rico DelawareBahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Sesuvium maritimum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Delaware DEL
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Kansas KAN
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
Pennsylvania PEN
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Cuba CUB
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Mollugo maritima Ser. ex DC.
  • Pharnaceum maritimum Walter
  • Pharnaceum maritimum Walter
  • Sesuvium pentandrum Elliott

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.