Common Name: common personal, pigweed, little hogweed, red root
Family: Portulaceae
Distribution/Origin: North Africa - Middle East
Leaf/Bud: deep green, succulent, alternate and clustered at stem joints
Flower/Inflorescence: yellow flowers with 5 regular parts up to 6mm wide, depending on rainfall flowers can appear any time of the year
Fruit/Seed:
Stem/Bark: smooth prostrate stems
Size: up to 40cm in height
Habit: upright
Form:
Culture: taproot with additional fibrous roots
Landscape Use: annual succulent weed