It is also sometimes called "Pacific silverweed", though this usually (and more precisely) refers to A. pacifica.

Eged's silverweed is a low-growing herbaceous plant with creeping red stolons up to 80 centimetres (31 in) long.

The sparsity of the hairs is a useful distinction from A. anserina, which is more densely hairy.

[citation needed] It is a halophyte native to Arctic and cool temperate coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, most commonly growing in salt marshes.

The southern limits of the range are California and Long Island, New York in North America, and the Baltic Sea and coastal eastern Siberia in Eurasia.