Index / Search / Portulaca pilosa
§1 Plant
Portulaca pilosa L.
vernacular kiss me quick — species · Portulacaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Portulacaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Portulaca
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 260 counties across 19 states/territories§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 260 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Hardee 12049
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Sumter 12119
- Taylor 12123
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Crawford 20037
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Elk 20049
- Ellsworth 20053
- Gray 20069
- Greenwood 20073
- Harper 20077
- Harvey 20079
- Jackson 20085
- Kingman 20095
- Lyon 20111
- Meade 20119
- Miami 20121
- Montgomery 20125
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Stafford 20185
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Claiborne 22027
- East Feliciana 22037
- Grant 22043
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vernon 22115
- Webster 22119
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 14 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 66 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Armstrong 48011
- Atascosa 48013
- Bailey 48017
- Bastrop 48021
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Coke 48081
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Ellis 48139
- Falls 48145
- Fayette 48149
- Frio 48163
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Houston 48225
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jackson 48239
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kenedy 48261
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Lampasas 48281
- Llano 48299
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McLennan 48309
- McMullen 48311
- Milam 48331
- Montague 48337
- Motley 48345
- Nueces 48355
- Orange 48361
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Wilbarger 48487
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Zapata 48505
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POPI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3084704 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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