Color is usually green to greenish-brown. Luster is vitreous to greasy. Diaphaneity is translucent to opaque. Crystal Habits include hexagonal, tabular pseudomorphs to 3mm and tabular and wedge-shaped crystals to 2mm forming complex groups.
Fracture is conchoidal to uneven.
Streak is white. Associated Minerals include aegirine, albite, catapleiite, chlorite group, elpidite, epididymite, rutile and siderite.