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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Portulaca minuta Correll
Tiny purslane

Portulaca minuta
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer, Big Pine Key, Monroe County, FL, USA

Family: Portulacaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: Florida Keys and the Bahamas.

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Critically Imperiled

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

South Florida History and Distribution: Discovered in 2013 in the National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key by Keith A. Bradley and Chad Anderson (2725 USF).

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Not Cultivated

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Native

IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status: Critically Imperiled

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Other data on Portulaca minuta available from :


Portulaca minuta has been reported from the following conservation area in the FLORIDA KEYS :
Occurrence Native Status
National Key Deer Refuge Present Native






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Portulaca minuta
Copyright by: Roger L. Hammer, Big Pine Key, Monroe County, FL, USA