Common Purslane
Scientific Name: Portulaca oleracea
Tentative Identification.
Common Purslane
Scientific Name: Portulaca oleracea
Tentative Identification.
Common Purslane
| Genus species: | Portulaca oleracea | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Common Purslane | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Portulacaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs, often succulent; leaves various, simple and entire, stipulate in some; flowers bisexual, regular, in racemes, cymes, or sessile glomerules; fruit a capsule. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Nonnative | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Flower Color: | Yellow | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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