portulaca

• For added effect, I put a center eye of mauve verbena and red portulaca around the outer rim. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
• She carried a bouquet of deep pink roses, portulaca and baby's breath.
• It was Roddy's fancy, too, to cover this grave with portulaca--a little plant bearing starry flowers of vivid hues that live for a day only. —  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
• "And I would not have cared if it had turned me to silver Christine glanced wonderingly at him, astonished at this new theme of silver But if she went away, how is it that she is buried here, Roddy She isn't But the grave we covered with portulaca--" She stopped abruptly, for the boy's face had assumed the look she could not bear--the look of enduring that only those hardened to life should know. —  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
• There are little pink primroses dotting the sod, sweet-william, lavender, nasturtiums, sweet peas, hollyhocks, bachelor's buttons, portulaca, and a row of tall sunflowers, the delight of a sleepy colony of hens. —  The Claim Jumpers

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