Habit: Euploca procumbens grows as a hispid to villous, mostly erect, branched, herbaceous, annual to biennial, growing up to 50 cm in height. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblanceolate/elliptic, to 4 cm in length with an acute leaf apex. Vegetation is a slightly silver green color and slightly succulent.
The complete, perfect, slightly zygomorphic flowers are arranged in 2 rows along the rachis of the terminal or axillary, scorpoid cymes. The calyx has 5 fused at the base, green, pubescent sepals. The corolla has 5 fused white petals with a yellow center, with one lobe slight larger than the others. There are 5 stamens fused to the base of the corolla. The ovary is superior with 4 locules. The fruit is a capsule.
Habitat: Euploca procumbens grows in open flats and low areas and depressions that are ephemeral Fresh Water Wetlands.
Distribution: Euploca procumbens is native to the Lucayan Archipelago occurring primarily in the southern islands as well as the Caribbean region, South and Central America and Mexico and the southern United States.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Euploca procumbens is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.