Purslane: An edible groundcover
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Purslane (Portulaca)
This bright little annual, P. grandiflora, has been introduced many years from its native home in Chili, and few Chilian plants have spread so widely all over the world.
Lore: Purslane is a good edible and is eaten throughout much of Europe and Asia. It can be eaten fresh or cooked and has no bitter taste at all. Since it has a mucilaginous quality it is great for soups and stews.
Purslane is a pleasant salad herb, and excellent for scorbutic troubles.
There are more
Purslane Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database,
and at the Desert-Tropicals Website ...
Garden Orach, Mountain Spinach, Sea Purslane
These striking shrubs accent a desert garden with clumps of silvery foliage, often with a felted or dusty texture. Sprigs of modest flowers lead to intriguing winged fruit bracts in some species.
- Salt bush, Tree purslane
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This is a silver foliaged shrub which smallish oblong leaves and sometimes, but rarely in Britain and Ireland, small yellow flowers in spring and summer.
Calandrinia grandiflora - Rock Purslane
Portulacaceae
Calandrinia grandiflora is a fleshy, tender perennial that can be grown in zone 7 as an annual. The fleshy leaves are gray-green up to 8 inches long and the plant will reach about 36 inches tall.
Winter Purslane
A long stemmed spearhead-shaped, fleshy green leaf that provides a mild flavor as a salad green. Predominately grown in western North America, this green is also known as Cuban ...
USDA Nutrition Facts ...
Purslane
by Joan Huyser-Honig
Shoulders slumped, I surveyed my sweet corn patch. Once again wind, drought, borers and raccoons had wiped out my harvest. Between the toppled stalks, however, purslane sprawled green and succulent over the cracked clay.
Purslane - common name for some plants of the Portulaceae, a family of herbs and a few small shrubs, chiefly of the Americas. The portulacas or purslanes is a common trailing weed in America; it and the upright...
Purslane Speedwell, Necklace-weed, Speedwell,Purslane
Species:
Veronica peregrina ...
Purslane spreads prolifically in gardens, lawns, and open sandy soils. It is an alien species and is very successful at rooting from just the smallest piece of root or leaf. Leaves and stems are often purple/red.
Sea Purslane
Sesuvium portulacastrum
Mat-forming, sprawling, profusely branched, fleshy seaside plant. Flowers: 3/4" (2 cm), star-like, with 5 pointed, petal-like sepals; bright pink inside, green outside; arise on stalks from leaf axils.
Iceland Purslane, Iceland Yellowcress, Imperforate St. John's Wort, Intermediate Bladderwort, Intermediate Water Starwort, Intermediate Wintergreen, Irish Eyebright, Irish Fleabane, Irish Heath, Irish Lady's Tresses, Irish Saxifrage, Irish Spurge, ...
The related purslane (P. oleracea) is a bothersome weed in warm climates, although it is widely cultivated for food and has been for more than 2000 years.
common purslane; little hogweed Portulaca oleracea
common reed; phragmites Phragmites australis
common snowberry Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus
common sow thistle Sonchus oleraceus
common St. John's-wort Hypericum perforatum ...
Family: Portulacaceae, Purslane
Genus: Claytonia
Description
General: delicate, fleshy, hairless perennial, 5-20 cm tall,
partly underground, from a usually rather deep-seated,
almost round bulb-like corm 5-20 mm in diameter.
It differs from the very similar marsh purslane (Ludwigia palustris) by having petals and by lacking vertical green stripes on the capsule.
Habitat: Wet ground in ditches, along streams, around ponds, swamps, shallow spring water.
Common summer annual broadleaf weeds include smooth pigweed, common lambsquarters, purslane, galinsoga, common ragweed and tall morningglory.
Other Names include: Eleven O'Clock, Purslane, and Sun Plant
Portulaca seeds are edible raw or cooked. Seed can be ground up and put into recipes, soups, and sauces.
Propagation: ...
Though called a "moss" rose, & sometimes the other way around as Rose Moss, the succlent leaves are not actually very mossy. Because it wants full bright sun it is also known as the Sun Flower, or because of its weedy cousin Purslane (P. oleracea) ...
The BASELLACE Æ is a small plant family, related to the PORTULACACE Æ (Purslane Family) and CHENOPODIACE Æ (Goosefoot Family). It consists of four genera:
1) Basella ...
Portulaca grandiflora
Family: Portulacaceae
Moss rose, Perslane, Purslane ...
Amaranth, basil, beetroot, chicory, coriander, chard, corn salad, dandelion, endive, komatsuma, land cress, leaf celery, lettuce, mizuna, mustard, pak choi, parsley, purslane, radicchio, red kale, rocket, sorrel and spinach.
Nombres relacionados: Euforbia americana (castellano), Euphorbia pubentissima (sinónimo), Euphorbiaceae (familia), Flowering spurge (inglés), White Purslane (inglés).
Toxicidad: Tóxica ...
Portulaca is a spreading succulent that grows 6 inches tall and a foot across. It's capable of storing moisture between rains in its fleshy, banana-shaped leaves. The plant belongs to the purslane family.
to dress up the dinner table.
Place container specimens with other heat-loving flowering plants such as
bougainvillea, coral vine, purslane, Cuphea (Mexican heather and cigar plant),
and Mandevilla.
 See also: Portulaca, Sorrel, Orchid, Grape, Medic
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