It is also known by common names such as fringed amaranth or fringed pigweed. Its common names include pink purslane, kiss-me-quick and hairy pigweed. It is also called prostrate knotweed, birdweed, pigweed and lowgrass. Portulaca intraterranea, the large pigweed, is a succulent herb native to deserts of central Australia. Larvae feed on weeds such as bluegrass, curled dock, lambsquarters, yellow rocket, and redroot pigweed. Theophrastus, who lived around 300 BC noticed the inhibitory effects of pigweed on alfalfa. More general common names include tumbleweed and pigweed. This plant could possibly be "Chenopodium californicum", the California goosefoot (also known as pigweed). More land came under cultivation, and Southwestern pigweed was grown. Another of "A. retroflexus's" common names is "pigweed" because it grows where hogs are pasture-fed. There are also historical records of sea-beach pigweed and sandplain gerardia. One internee was jailed by the internee police for 15 days for harvesting pigweed. Both films are based on the short story "El cenizo" ("The Pigweed") by Zuhair Jury.