Calandrinia
ciliata #
Annual or perennial, generally fleshy. Stems generally glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate or opposite. Inflorescence various, flowers bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2; petals 3-18, free or +/- fused; stamens 1-many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior; styles 208, generally fused at base. Fruit a capsule.
About 20 genera and 400 species generally temperate America, Australia, s. Africa. Some cultivated, Lewisia, Portulaca, and Calandrinia. (Hickman, Ed. 895).
Upper Newport Bay species within the family:
Claytonia perfoliata ssp. mexicana #
Claytonia
perfoliata ssp. perfoliata #
Portulaca
oleracea
Portulacaria
afra