Maximum length: 0.5 m.
Appearance: Small flowering plant with pink or white flowers. The small, heart-shaped leaves have thick waxy skins. The leaves are all arranged around a central stem, often flat on the ground.
Depth: on land.
Feeding: Scurvy grass is a producer. It makes itsown food by photosynthesis. It has chlorophyll just like most land plants.
Environment: Scurvy grass grows between rocks at the top of the shore and in salt marshes near to the sea. They have many xerophytic features that enable them to survive where water is hard to extract from the soil.
Other facts: The name refers to the large concentration of vitamin C in the leaves. It is said that sailors would eat them as a way of avoiding scurvy. Try them yourself but beware, they don't taste very pleasant and you could be eating it with a seagull poo sauce!
Classification: Scurvy grass is a member of the angiosperm plant group.