✿Portulacaceae · Portulaca
Pasalai Keerai / Chicken Weed
Portulaca quadrifida
Herb
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Portulaca quadrifida
- Genus
- Portulaca
- Family
- Portulacaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Wastelands and roadsides
- Habitat type
- Wasteland
- Distribution
- Pantropic (Except Australia and the Pacific East of Samoa)
- Found in India
- Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Delhi, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pasalai Keerai itself; the rest are typical of the Portulacaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tamil
- பசலை கீறை Pasalai keerai
- Kannada
- ಗೋಳಿಸೊಪ್ಪು Goli soppu, ಗೋಣಿಸೊಪ್ಪು Goni soppu, ಹಾಲಿಬಚ್ಚೆಲೆ Haalibacchele
About Pasalai Keerai
Chicken Weed (Portulaca quadrifida) is a herb in the Portulacaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and 13 other states. It grows in wastelands and roadsides. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Portulacaceae
Purslane Family
Pasalai Keerai belongs to the Portulacaceae family.
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