Shaggy portulaca
Portulaca pilosa L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 11 cm
- wide
- —
Portulacaceae
Also called Hairy Pigweed, Pink purslane, Kiss-me-quick, Kiss me quick
Formerly Portulaca advena, Portulaca cincta, Portulaca cyanosperma, Portulaca cyathostyla, and 18 more
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
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. U.S.A. to Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1 cm to 20 cmRead from Weed-ID, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Chisme
- root
- escúptama, chouvalyé wonzé
- Hawaiian
- `akulikuli
- Chinese
- 毛馬齒莧, 日中花, 毛马齿苋
- Portuguese
- amor-crescido
- Japanese
- ヒメマツバボタン, ケツメクサ
- Chinese (China)
- 毛马齿苋
- Thai
- สารพัดพิษ
- French
- Pourpier poilu, pourpier rose
- Arabic
- رجلة وردية
- Slovak
- portulaka chlpatá
- Simplified Chinese
- 多毛马齿苋, 毛马齿苋, 毛马齿览
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Weed-ID, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Portulaca pilosa (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.