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§1 Plant

Portulaca amilis Speg.

vernacular Paraguayan purslane — species · Portulacaceae


USDA
POAM13
GBIF
3084711
Rank
species
Paraguayan purslane (Portulaca amilis)
Platephotograph · Jeff Stauffer source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Portulacaceae Dumort.
Genus
Portulaca
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 29 counties across 4 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 29 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 29 counties across 4 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POAM13 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3084711 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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