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Weed-9390 : Prostrate, small backyard weed to be identified. I suspect it is in the portulaca family. I paged through the family in the Jepson Manual without recognizing this. I didn't find it in Google Images or the USDA web site. The longest leaf was about 1 cm (3/8 inch), counting petiole. Leaves and bracts look somewhat succulent, often with red tinge at edges, like miners lettuce and red maids. Very small flowers, about 1 mm diameter except for the calyx or involucre (under 2 mm diameter), which hides the rest of the flower most of the time. I finally photographed a flower that was fully open.

Weed-9390

Prostrate, small backyard weed to be identified. I suspect it is in the portulaca family. I paged through the family in the Jepson Manual without recognizing this. I didn't find it in Google Images or the USDA web site. The longest leaf was about 1 cm (3/8 inch), counting petiole. Leaves and bracts look somewhat succulent, often with red ...

Updated: Mar 31, 2009 1:48pm PST