Purslane
पोर्टुलाका ओलेरासिया या पर्सलेनபருப்புக்கீரைഉപ്പുചീര
Portulaca oleracea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Portulacaceae
Also called Pigweed, Common purslane, Little hogweed, Moss rose, Pusley
Formerly Portulaca officinarum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Semisucculent annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Africa, EC. & S. Europe to Pakistan and Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 4.4 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Artengruppe Gemüse-Portulak, Kreusel, Bürzelkohl
- Dutch
- Postelein-complex
- Persian
- پرپهن, پرپین
- Malayalam
- ഉപ്പുചീര, കൊഴുപ്പ
- Arabic
- الرجلة, بقلة, البقلة
- Catalan
- Verdolaga
- Bulgarian
- Тученица
- Spanish
- lengua de gato, borzolaga, engañagochos
- Afrikaans
- beesporselein, bobbejaandraad, gewone porslein
- Asturian
- verdolaga
- Azerbaijani
- Dirrik pərpərəni
- Belarusian
- Партулак агародны
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Portulaca oleracea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.