PORTULACACEAE
Portulaca pilosa
Common Name: Chisme, Shaggy Portulaca
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| habit - low, prostrate annual | |
| flower - What is the floral symmetry? | flower bud |
| leaves terete (means cylindrical), linear | leaves alternate, but the uppermost apparently whorled |
| leaf axils conspicuously villous with long, white, kinky hairs | fruits circumscissle with a bottom valve (like a pot) and an upper valve (like a lid); Can you see the tiny black seeds? |