Taxon: Portulaca oleracea L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AZ*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Portulaca oleracea subsp. sativa (no accessions)

Common names:

• common purslane   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• little hogweed   (Source: CalFlora ) – English
  
• portulaca-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purslane   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• baqlah   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• barbir   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• rijlah   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• ma chi xian   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pourpier   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – French
  
• Portulak   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ghol   (Source: Wealth India RM ) – India
  
• suberi-hiyu   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• doejipul   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• soebireum   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• beldroega   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• portulak ogorodnyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• portulak ovosenoj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• verdolaga   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vildportlak   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:227. 1993; F ChinaEng)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:227. 1993; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; F ChinaEng)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Portulaca oleracea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized weed

• origin unknown

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• CalFlora Database Project. CalFlora: a botanical resource for California on the internet (on-line resource).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with seven subspecies].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:119.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:227–229.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Portulaca oleracea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Portulaca oleracea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Portulaca oleracea.

Synonyms:

• Portulaca sativa Haw. [≡ Portulaca oleracea subsp. sativa]
  

Check other web resources for Portulaca oleracea L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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