Noun: common purslane
- Weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan
"She gathered fresh common purslane leaves for her Greek salad";
- pussley [US], pussly [US], verdolaga, Portulaca oleracea, purslane
Type of: purslane
Part of: genus Portulaca
Encyclopedia: Common purslane