Kiss Me Quick
Portulaca pilosanative · Hill Country
Kiss Me Quick is an annual wildflower native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 0.5 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms red, pink and purple in Jun–Oct. Good for bees, butterflies and nectar insects.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Annual wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–8 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 0.5 ft
- Spread
- 1 ft
- Bloom
- Jun–Oct · red, pink, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on caliche, clay, dry, granitic, gravelly, limestone, loam, saline, sand
- Wildlife
- Supports bees, butterflies and nectar insects
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsLlano UpliftEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesLimestone Cut Plain
726 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.