Equal-leaved Knotgrass - Polygonum arenastrum

Low mat-forming plant. Leaves elliptical to lanceolate, uniform. Flowers lateral, solitary or in small clusters, greenish white, or pinkish.

Waste places, roadsides and pathways, open and bare places etc.

July to September.

Annual.

Fairly frequent in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 147 of the 617 tetrads.