Common Purslane - Portulaca oleracea
Low, spreading, hairless plant with branched stems and some spoon shaped leaves. Flowers yellow, 8 to 12 mm solitary, lateral or at stem forks.
Cultivated and waste places. The plant illustrated was found on farm topsoil that had been recently tipped and spread, its origins are unknown.
June to September.
Annual.
Usually only found as a casual, or naturalised in Britain.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland; not on the VC55 checklist (Jeeves, 2011)
 Drive to Springfield Farm Sapcote SP 4828 9273 (taken 11.7.2006).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
11 July 2006
 Drive to Springfield Farm Sapcote SP 4828 9273 (taken 11.7.2006).JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Purslane
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Caryophyllales
- Family:
- Portulacaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 11/07/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 11/07/2006 (Calow, Graham)
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