Honckenya peploides, the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada),[2] is the only species in the genusHonckenya of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort,[3] and sea purslane.[4] The scientific name is often spelled "Honkenya", and is named after the German botanist Gerhard August Honckeny (or Honkeny).[5] This plant has a circumborealdistribution.
The plant is a succulent perennial growing at the edge of the sea. It has small greenish white pentamerous flowers with 10 stamens in the male flowers borne in the leaf axils.[6] The fruit capsule opens in three valves.
^"Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
^Warren L. Wagner, "Honckenya Ehrhart, Neues Mag. Aerzte. 5: 206. 1783.", Flora of North America
^Le Roy Abrams & Roxana Stinchfield Ferris (1923). Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae, buckwheats to kramerias. An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States. Vol. 2. Stanford University Press. ISBN9780804700047.
^New Flora of the British Isles, Clive Stace, 2005, Cambridge University Press