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?