It grows in a wide variety of habitat types and it can easily take hold in disturbed areas and cultivated land as a weed.

[3] It is an annual herb forming a prostrate mat or clump with stems up to a meter long.

It is green to red in color, hairless except for small lines of hairs near the leaves, and fleshy.

The leaves have small round or oval blades up to 4 centimeters long borne on short petioles.

It is up to half a centimeter long and has two erect, pointed wings on top, where the capsule opens.