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purslane
Portulaca oleracea
Weed Characteristics
Other Names: common purslane, wild portulaca, akulikuli-kula, duckweed, pursley, pusley, little hogweed, little-hogweed, garden purslane, pigweed
Leaf Type: Broadleaf
Flowers: Yellow
Leaves: Ovate leaves with smooth edges; no hair
Life Cycle: Summer annual
Low, mat-forming plant with succulent stems and fleshy, paddle-shaped leaves. Stems are often tinged maroon. Tiny, yellow flowers bloom 4 weeks after emerging as a seedling. It self-pollinates, reproducing from seed. The plant can also reproduce from its taproot or fragments of leaves or stems and spreads from roots that generate at the nodes.
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