You are here
Species
Portulaca oleracea L.
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
Source | http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Portulaca+oleracea |
"Annual herb, glabrous, fleshy with numerous decumbent branches, to 35 cm long. Leaves spiral or subopposite, often crowded at ends of branches, sessile or subsessile, obovate or spatulate to linear-oblong, cuneate or attenuate at base, rounded or truncate at apex, 1-3 x 0.2-1.5 cm; stipular hairs very few, inconspicuous, ca 1 mm long, caducous. Flowers sessile, ca 3 mm across, terminal, 1-15, surrounded by a cluster of crowded leaves; bracts ovate-acuminate, to 3 mm long, membranous. Sepals connate at base into a ca 2 mm long tube; lobes oblong-ovate, keeled or slightly winged on back, 2-4 mm long. Petals 4 or 5, connate at base, broadly obovate or oblong-obovate, rarely emarginate at apex, 4-8 x 2-6 mm, yellow. Stamens 7-12(-15); filaments to 4 mm long. Ovary ovoid; style short, to 5 mm long with 3-6 subulate lobes. Capsules obovoid to ovoid, 4-5 x ca 3 mm, enveloped by marcescent corolla, dehiscing transversely in middle; seeds many, reniform, 0.5-1mm across, granular, dull black."
Flowering late spring-early fall.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200007020 |
Global Range: According to Weakley (unpublished draft Jan. 2006) Portulaca oleracea is apparently native to Asia.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
Source | http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Portulaca+oleracea |
"Habit: A small, prostrate herb, upto 30cm."
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33264 |
Fl. Per. Flowers open in morning throughout the year.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200007020 |
"Maharashtra: Pune, Satara Karnataka: Mysore"
Habit: Herb
Plant contains abundant noradrenaline and has hypoglycemic properties.
"Found in the agricutural fields and stream banks from plains to 750m. Scarce. India, Sri Lanka, Malesia and Australia."
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33264 |