🌿 Family

Portulacaceae

8 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Caryophyllales › Portulacaceae

Portulaca amilis Speg. resembles Portulaca oleracea, has sharp foliage tips, and usually bears pink flowers.

Portulaca grandiflora Hook. is a small fast-growing annual ornamental C4/CAM intermediate plant.

Portulaca halimoides, or silkcotton purslane, is a fleshy annual purslane native to the Americas' arid and tropical regions.

Portulaca oleracea L. (purslane) is a widely distributed succulent plant with distinct growth, distribution, and ecological traits.

Portulaca pilosa L. is a variable, pantropical annual succulent used in traditional Brazilian medicine, and invasive in several island regions.

Portulaca umbraticola Kunth is an edible small succulent with varied flower colors that can grow up to 25 cm tall.

Portulaca suffrutescens (shrubby purslane) is a perennial flowering plant native to the southwestern US and northern/central Mexico.

Portulaca quadrifida is an edible Old World Tropics flowering Portulaca species eaten by people and used as chicken and pig fodder.

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