Any of several similar plants of genera Chenopodium and Atriplex.
Chenopodium album, of the goosefoot family, sometimes used as a potherb
Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
Halimione portulacoides
moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
Honckenya peploides
purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
the widely-grown edible plant common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea)