Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Portulaca pilosa
Portulaca pilosa L.
Kiss Me Quick, Chisme
Portulacaceae (Purslane Family)
USDA Symbol: POPI3USDA Native Status: L48 (N), HI (I), PR (N), VI (I)
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Specimen & Label Data
Portulaca pilosa
Shaggy Portulaca
Portulacaceae
Location: 880 Military Drive on Canyon Lake IslandLatitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Plentiful on open, dry, rocky flats.
Description: Herbaceous, prostrate annual. Leaves alternate, fleshy, numerous. Flowers complete, villous, terminal. Involucre of 6-10 leaves. Ovary inferior, circumsissle. Petals rosy red to purple, stamens numerous. Calyx, corolla and stamens fall with the top of capsule. Seed numerous, small, black (.3 mm dia.)
County: Comal
Collector: Mary Beth White
Collection Date: Sep 8, 1995
Specimen number: 224
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 1058
Accession Date: Oct 24, 1995
Accession Number: 87
Annotations: SCFRC (In flower & fruit)