Taxon: Portulaca pilosa L.

Common names:

• hairy-pigweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• kiss-me-quick   (Source: CalFlora ) – English
  
• mao ma chia xian   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• skäggportlak   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 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).
• Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis.
• CalFlora Database Project. CalFlora: a botanical resource for California on the internet (on-line resource).
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• 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 pilosa.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Portulaca pilosa.

Check other web resources for Portulaca pilosa L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

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• 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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