Index / Search / Trianthema portulacastrum
§1 Plant
Trianthema portulacastrum L.
vernacular desert horsepurslane — species · Aizoaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Aizoaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Trianthema
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
County-level range
· 91 counties across 18 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 91 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
California view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRPO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3084848 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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