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Portulaca pilosa L.

Chisme, Kiss me quick
Portulacaceae (Purslane Family)

USDA Symbol: POPI3
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Portulaca mundula

Shaggy Portulaca

Portulacaceae

Location: 14500 Circle A Trail, Helotes, Texas
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Rocky, stoney, roadside fill with poor soil filling spaces. Full sun.

Description: Flatly sprawling succulent, hairy, annual. Much branched to 15 cm long. Flower 1.3 cm dia. rosy-red; petals-5, cupped; 2-8, crowded in densely, hairy cluster subtended by a whorl of 6-10 leaves. Leaves 1.6 cm long, narrow, alter.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Mike Fox
 Collection Date: August 15, 1996
 Specimen number: 204

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 1093
 Accession Date: February 25, 1997
 Accession Number: 97

Annotations: SCFRB (in flower/fruit) Portulaca pilosa Harry Cliffe Mar 26, 1998

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