Paronychia argentea (Algerian Tea) is an herbaceous plant from the family Caryophyllaceae that grows in sandy areas, ways, abandoned fields and dry terrains.

Similar to Paronychia capitata but with almost all glabrous leaves, a rigid and prominent sow, and calyx lobules with transparent margins.

They are hermaphrodite, pentamerous and actinomorphic, accompanied with scaly silver bracts bigger that themselves.

It grows in abandoned or dry terrains, dunes and ditches, and flourishes from winter to summer.

[2] Paronychia argentea was described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and published in Flore Françoise [es] 3: 230.