Portulaca amilis

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Species Distribution Map
Family:PORTULACACEAE
Species:Portulaca amilis Speg.
Common Name:Paraguayan Purslane; Broadleaf Pink Purslane
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:POAM13
Plant Notes:Paraguayan Purslane is an introduced herbaceous annual in the Purslane family (Portulacaceae). It is native to South America. In Alabama it has been collected from the southern half of the state. Paraguayan Purslane occurs as a lawn weed, in cracks of sidewalks and parking lots, on beaches, and along paths, often in sandy soils. It is an annual with a tap root. The stems are prostrate to erect, branched, succulent, and often reddish in color. There are dense clusters of white hairs at the nodes and in the inflorescence but the stems are otherwise glabrous. Leaves are alternate or congested towards the tips of the stems, oblanceolate to spatulate or obovate in outline, flattened, succulent, and glabrous, with entire margins. Flowers are terminal or axillary. The flowers have 5-7 dark pink to orangish-pink petals. The flowers only open on sunny days and last for a single day. They are largely cleistogamous with self-fertilization occurring in bud, and many flowers set fruit without opening. The fruit is a capsule with many small shiny black seed. Paraguayan Purslane is a C4 species capable of facultative Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM).—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyPORTULACACEAE - Purslane family
Genus Portulaca
Species Portulaca amilis Speg. - Paraguayan Purslane; Broadleaf Pink Purslane

Citation

Citation Portulaca amilis Spegazzini, Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 92: 104, pl. 6. 1921.
Basionym: **
Type: PARAGUAY: Asunción, 1919, Spegazzini s.n. (holotype: ?).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Dallas, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Lowndes, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, TROY, UNA, UWAL, UWFP

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UWFP015232 Baldwin 16 Jul 2013 James R. Burkhalter
24198		 UWFP
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000050916 Lowndes 16 Aug 2020 Diamond, Alvin R.
29416		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000042997 Houston 30 Jul 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26648		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000042145 Butler 21 Sep 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23387		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWFP015231 Baldwin 21 Oct 2002 James R. Burkhalter
18877		 UWFP
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0005939 Monroe 20 Sep 2007 Diamond, Alvin R.
18249		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UWAL0032007 Houston 30 Jul 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26648		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000039332 Escambia 27 Oct 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24677		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWFP015233 Escambia 22 Sep 2013 James R. Burkhalter
24369		 UWFP
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0044968 Bullock 20 Jul 2018 Horne, Howard E.
4573		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0039780 Autauga 16 Nov 2017 Diamond, Alvin R.
27979		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0034043 Baldwin 19 Sep 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6747		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000046422 Autauga 16 Nov 2017 Diamond, Alvin R.
27979		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0030309 Dallas 24 Jul 2015 Keener, Brian R.
9044		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UWAL0045259 Bullock 21 Jul 2018 Soehren, Eric C.
574		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000038140 Bullock 19 Jun 2012 Dykes, Bailee
871		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UNA00066281 Pike 26 Aug 2006 Diamond, Alvin R.
17175		 UNA
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UWFP015236 Mobile 16 Sep 2008 James R. Burkhalter
21995		 UWFP
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0016233 Escambia 27 Oct 2013 Diamond, Alvin R.
24677		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000008046 Pike 26 Oct 2006 Diamond, Alvin R.
17175		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000043638 Dallas 24 Jul 2015 Keener, Brian R.
9044		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000042160 Montgomery 22 May 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22145		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000049570 Autauga 21 Sep 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
1261		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
ALNHS00003558 Crenshaw 18 Jun 2015 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2054		 ALNHS
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UWAL0036239 Barbour 08 Sep 2013 Keener, Brian R.
8170		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UNA00056710 Houston 28 Jun 1998 MacDonald, John R.
11509		 UNA
Portulaca amilis Speg.
UWFP015234 Mobile 02 Nov 2003 James R. Burkhalter with J.G. Flesher
19697		 UWFP
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0050148 Autauga 21 Sep 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
1261		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000022615 Monroe 20 Sep 2007 Diamond, Alvin R.
18249		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UWAL0011536 Conecuh 14 Oct 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23517		 UWAL
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
TROY000042320 Conecuh 14 Oct 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23517		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
UNA00056706 Geneva 29 Jun 1998 MacDonald, John R.
11560		 UNA
Portulaca amilis Speg.
TROY000028282 Crenshaw 04 Sep 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19895		 TROY
Portulaca amilis Spegazzini
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