Portulaca pilosaL.

shaggy portulaca

WFO wfo-0000489258 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Portulaca pilosa, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. a 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205353474
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. b 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204039427
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. c Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204265730
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. d Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204325789
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. e Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193387796
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Darren Oh
fig. f Darren Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202760204
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Neli Kanonerova
fig. g Neli Kanonerova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194622297
Portulaca pilosa, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. h Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197734104

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,798 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,798 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Portulaca decipiens Poelln.
  • Portulaca ehrenbergii Poelln.
  • Portulaca gagatosperma Millsp.
  • Portulaca karwinskii Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall.
  • Portulaca lanata Rich.
  • Portulaca mundula I.M.Johnst.
  • Portulaca pilosa f. mexicana D.Legrand
  • Portulaca pilosa var. halimoides (L.) Kuntze
  • Portulaca pilosa var. pilosa
  • Portulaca poliosperma Urb.
  • Portulaca poliosperma var. minor Urb.
  • Portulaca procumbens Urb. & Ekman

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.