Portulaca oleracea L. fra il Periodo Romano e il Rinascimento in Emilia Romagna: informazioni dai reperti archeocarpologici

Using archaeobotanical data and morfo-biometric analyses of subfossil seeds, it has been into considerations the history of Portulaca oleracea in Emilia Romagna from the Roman period to the Renaissance, with particular attention to the question of the discrimination between P. oleracea subsp. sativa and P. oleracea subsp. oleracea. A short taxonomical framing and ethnobotanical data about species of that period are also shown.