purslane

A trailing plant (Portulaca oleracea) native to Eurasia, having small yellow flowers, reddish stems, and fleshy obovate leaves that can be cooked as a vegetable or used in salads.

A herbaceous plant, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed through warm and temperate climates.

In America, Sesuvium Portulacastrum, of the warmer Atlantic shores and the saline or alkaline valleys of the southwestern United States, a prostrate fleshy plant, forming mats sometimes 6 feet broad; also, S. pentandrum, sometimes erect, reaching north to New Jersey.

Ludwigia palustris.

An American aquatic or sometimes terrestrial herb, Didiplis linearis, of the Lythrarieæ, with opposite linear leaves and very small greenish flowers.

An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca.

a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves.

a seashore plant (Arenaria peploides) with crowded opposite fleshy leaves.