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  • n  a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas

  • The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock.
  • purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset, pearly everlasting, wild madder, bouncing bet, tread-softly, lopseed, dodder, virgin's bower,.
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  • National Parks Working on Healthier, Tastier Food
    Now with gazpacho! Taking cues from FLOTUS's healthy-school-foods program, the National Park Service announced that you'll start to find local, sustainable food while you happen to be admiring all of that greenery. One fan of the move: Alice Waters, who says she once had her own epiphany about NPS food potential when she was walking through a park and found herself in a purslane patch: "Waters ...
    June 10, 2013 - New York Magazine

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