Portulaca

Accepted species 109 Documented here 21 Family Portulacaceae

Accepted species 109 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Portulaca oleracea L. 4,095 documented
Portulaca pilosa L. 941 documented
Portulaca amilis Speg. 206 documented
Portulaca grandiflora Hook. 141 documented
Portulaca umbraticola Kunth 114 documented
Portulaca suffrutescens Engelm. 54 documented
Portulaca quadrifida L. 39 documented
Portulaca kermesina N.E.Br. 31 documented
Portulaca halimoides L. 28 documented
Portulaca obtusa Poelln. 28 documented
Portulaca californica D.Legrand 27 documented
Portulaca psammotropha Hance 23 documented
Portulaca cryptopetala Speg. 19 documented
Portulaca rubricaulis Kunth 15 documented
Portulaca hereroensis Schinz 10 documented
Portulaca sclerocarpa A.Gray 10 documented
Portulaca gilliesii Hook. 9 documented
Portulaca confertifolia Hauman 7 documented
Portulaca mucronata Link 6 documented
Portulaca eruca Hauman 3 documented
Portulaca hirsutissima Cambess. 3 documented
Portulaca elatior Mart. ex Rohrb. 2 below the evidence gate
Portulaca elongata Rusby 2 below the evidence gate
Portulaca mexicana P.Wilson 2 below the evidence gate
Portulaca papulosa Schlecht. 2 below the evidence gate
Portulaca wightiana Wall. ex G.Don 2 below the evidence gate
Portulaca cubensis Britton & P.Wilson 1 below the evidence gate
Portulaca fulgens Griseb. 1 below the evidence gate
Portulaca lutea Sol. ex G.Forst. 1 below the evidence gate
Portulaca perennis R.E.Fr. 1 below the evidence gate
Portulaca philippii I.M.Johnst. 1 below the evidence gate
Portulaca argentinensis Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca biloba Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca brevifolia Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca canariensis Danin & Reyes-Bet. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca cardenasiana D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca caulerpoides Britton & P.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca centrali-africana R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca chacoana D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca collina Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca colombiana D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca columbiana Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca conzattii P.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca costata Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca cyanosperma Egler 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca cypria Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca echinosperma Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca expatriata Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca fascicularis Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca fluvialis D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca foliosa Ker Gawl. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca fragilis Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca frieseana Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca gracilis Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca granulatostellulata (Poelln.) Ricceri & Arrigoni 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca guanajuatensis Ocampo 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca hatsbachii D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca hatschbachii D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca hawaiiensis O.Deg. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca hoehnei D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca howellii (D.Legrand) Eliasson 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca humilis Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca insignis Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca insularis Hosok. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca lanuginosa Crantz 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca longiusculotuberculata Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca macbridei D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca macrantha Ricceri & Arrigoni 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca macrosperma D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca masonii D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca matthewsii Ocampo 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca mauritiensis Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca meyeri D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca minensis D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca mucronulata D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca nicaraguensis (Danin & H.G.Baker) Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca nitida (Danin & H.G.Baker) Ricceri & Arrigoni 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca nivea Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca obtusifolia D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca papillatostellulata (Danin & H.G.Baker) Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca papulifera D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca pedicellata D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca pilosissima Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca pusilla Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca pygmaea Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca ragonesi D.Legrand 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca rausii Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca rosae Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca rotundifolia R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca rzedowskiana Ocampo 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca samoensis Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca sanctae-martae Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca saxifragoides Welw. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca sedifolia N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca sedoides Welw. ex Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca simpliciuscula Mart. ex Rohrb. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca smallii P.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca stellulatotuberculata Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca striata Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca teretifolia Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca thellusonii Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca tingoensis J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca trianthemoides Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca trituberculata Danin, Domina & Raimondo 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca tuberculata León 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca villosa Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca werdermannii Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca yecorensis Henrickson & T.Van Devender 0 below the evidence gate
Portulaca zaffranii Danin 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.