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Descriptive Flora 



thickish, usually unequal, dull green or purplish above and 

 frosted white beneath. Flowers tiny, bell-like, 5-lobed, about 

 1/16* across, wine red, sticky. The fruits are very sticky and 

 adhere to feathers of chickens and other birds. April to late fall. 

 Roadsides and weed patches. 



BoerJimvia erect a L. 



Plant with small ovate leaves that are green (often purplish- 

 margined) above and silvery- green below, and spreading 

 branches, the ends leafless and divided into many hair-like 

 branches bearing small clusters of minute white flowers or equal- 

 ly small, inverted cone-shaped, angled fruits. Leaves simple, 

 alternate or opposite. Blades ovate to lanceolate, % to l 1 /^' long, 

 wavy-margined, usually unequal-sided at the base. Leaf-stalks 

 as long as or shorter than the blades. Flowers less than long, 

 white or pale lavender, in clusters of 2 to 6. Fruits less than 

 y s " long, inverted cone-shaped, 5-angled, the top flat. Summer 

 to fall. Growing in alleys, along railroad tracks and in waste 

 ground. 



PORTULACACEAE. Purslane Family. 



Talinum lineare H. B. K. Fame Flower 



Smooth, leafy plants, 4 to 16" high with two to several 

 slender, brittle branches coming from a slightly shrubby base, 

 and slightly fleshy, linear leaves, 1 to 3" long, often with margins 

 rolled back. Flowers solitary, on short axillary pedicels (up to 

 long) in the axils of the leaves, bright yellow, the 5 petals 

 falling early. Stamens about 20. Fruit a three-valved pod, the 

 size of a pea, solitary on a recurved pedicel. The tiny, black, 

 bean-shaped seeds are marked with curved ridges and a tiny 

 white spot. Summer and fall. In dry open ground. 



Portulaca pilom L. Moss Rose. Portulaca. Flowering Moss. 



These low, fleshy-stemmed plants grow close to the ground 

 and have tufts of long soft hairs in the axils of the crowded, 

 fleshy leaves. Flowers delicate, deep pink or rose or red, open 



