Purslane is a common name for several mostly unrelated plants with edible leaves and may refer to:
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Portulacaceae
The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus '' Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera ...
, a family of succulent flowering plants, and especially:
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Portulaca oleracea
''Portulaca oleracea'' (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley) is an annual (actually tropical perennial in USDA growing zones 10–11) succulent in the family Portulacaceae.
Description
The plant may reach in height. It ...
'', a species of ''Portulaca'' eaten as a leaf vegetable, known as summer purslane
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Portulaca grandiflora
''Portulaca grandiflora'' is a succulent flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . It h ...
'', moss rose, or moss-rose purslane
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Claytonia perfoliata
''Claytonia perfoliata'' ( syn. ''Montia perfoliata''), also known as miner's lettuce, Indian lettuce, winter purslane, or ''palsingat'' (Cahuilla), is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It is an edible, fleshy, herbaceous, annual plant ...
'', miner's lettuce or winter purslane
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Claytonia sibirica
''Claytonia sibirica'', the pink purslane, candy flower, Siberian spring beauty or Siberian miner's lettuce, is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae, native to the Commander Islands (including Bering Island) of Siberia, and western North A ...
'', pink purslane
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Halimione portulacoides
''Halimione portulacoides'' or sea purslane (2n=36) is a shrub found in Eurasia.
Description
The plant grows to in height. It is evergreen, and in northern temperate climates it flowers from July to September. The flowers are monoecious and a ...
'', sea purslane
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Sesuvium portulacastrum
''Sesuvium portulacastrum'' is a sprawling perennial herb that grows in coastal areas throughout much of the world. It is commonly known as shoreline purslane or (ambiguously) " sea purslane," in English, ''dampalit'' in Tagalog and 海马齿sl ...
'', shoreline purslane
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Honckenya peploides
''Honckenya peploides'', the sea sandwort (UK) or seaside sandplant (Canada), is the only species in the genus ''Honckenya'' of the plant family Caryophyllaceae. Other common names include sea chickweed, sea pimpernal, sea-beach sandwort, and sea ...
'', also called sea purslane
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Portulacaria afra
''Portulacaria afra'' (known as elephant bush, porkbush, purslane tree and ' in Afrikaans) is a small-leaved succulent plant found in South Africa. These succulents commonly have a reddish stem and leaves that are green, but also a variegated cu ...
'', purslane tree
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