Citation: Dandy in Heyw., Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 70:4 (1965).

Synonymy: Helxine soleirolii Req., Annls Sci. nat., sér. 1, 5:384 (1825); Parietaria soleirolii (Req.)Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 4, app. 318 (1827).

Common name: Babys tears, mind-your-own-business.

Description:
Stems herbaceous-succulent, 5-30 cm long, sparsely puberulent; leaves suborbicular and strongly oblique to subreniform, on petioles to 3 mm long; the blade subsucculent, 3-nerved, c. 2-6 mm diam.

Flowers shortly pedunculate, to c. 2 mm long; female perianth tubular, 4- or 5-lobed when viewed from above, enclosed by the bract and bracteoles; male flower of 4 segments and 4 stamens.

Perianth in fruit with 4 or 5 thick wings; achene ellipsoid, smooth, c. 1 mm long.

	Male flower
Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	achene
Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the islands of the western Mediterranean, cultivated and occasionally naturalised. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available

	fruiting perianth
Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).