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Common Purslane (Portulaca oleracea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
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Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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Common purslane becomes quite permanently established where they are once introduced and will doubtless become weeds wherever they escape from cultivation.—William Darlington (1859)

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1997, pp. 394 - 397
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Copyright © 1997 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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