This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
I. verticillatum: annual; stems prostrate, glabrous, much branched, the branches 1-3 inches high, ascending; leaves small, opposite, obovate or roundish; flowers white, in whorls in the leaf-axils. - Sandy marshes in Devon and Cornwall. Fl July.
 
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