Portulaca grandiflora

Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the purslane family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, table rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane. Despite these names and the superficial resemblance of some cultivars' flowers to roses, it is not a true rose, nor even a part of the rose family or rosid group; rather, it is much more closely related to carnations and cacti.

"Moss rose" redirects here. For the rose, see Rosa × centifolia. For the stadium of Macclesfield F.C., see Moss Rose. For the 1947 film noir, see Moss Rose (film). For the book on which the film was based, see Moss Rose (novel).
Not to be confused with Portulaca umbraticola or Vietnam Rose.

Portulaca grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus: Portulaca
Species:
P. grandiflora
Binomial name
Portulaca grandiflora
Synonyms
  • Portulaca hilaireana G. Don
  • Portulaca immersostellulata Poelln.
  • Portulaca mendocinensis Gillies ex Hook.
  • Portulaca multistaminata Poelln.

It is also seen in South Asia and widely spread in most of the cities with old 18th- and 19th-century architecture in the Balkans.

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