Common Purslane - Portulaca oleracea
Other Names:
Little Hogweed, Verdolaga, Red Root, Pursley
Annual with fleshy, glabrous foliage. Stems prostrate to ascending, 5–30 cm. Leaves all cauline, alternate, short-petiolate; the blades obovate, 5–20 mm long, rounded at the tip. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in small, terminal clusters; sepals 2, fused to the ovary at the base, 3–4 mm long; petals 5, yellow, ephemeral, as long as sepals; stamens 6 to 12; ovary partly inferior; style branches 4 to 6 (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Rich disturbed soil of gardens, barn yards, cultivated fields; plains, valleys (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).