Moss rose
पोर्टुलाका ग्रन्डीफ़्लोराటేబుల్ రోజాটাইম ফুল
Portulaca grandiflora Hook.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 15 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Portulacaceae
Also called Rose moss, Rose-moss-of-garden, Ten o'clock, Moss-rose purslane, Mexican rose
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Peru to Brazil and ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 10 cm to 20 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–8 in; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; RHS 0.1–0.5 m
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, red, white, yellow; RHS pink, red, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- amor de un día, clavel de aire, verdolaga
- root
- PORGRA
- Chinese
- 松葉牡丹 (大花馬齒莧), 午时花, 大花马齿苋
- Portuguese
- Onze-Horas, Meio-dia
- Czech
- šrucha velkokvětá
- French
- Pourpier à grandes fleurs, Chevalier-d'onze-heures, Pourpier à Grands Fleurs
- Dutch
- Portulak
- Korean
- 채송화
- Russian
- Портулак крупноцветковый
- Japanese
- マツバボタン
- Finnish
- koristeportulakka, Koristeportulakka
- German
- Portulakröschen
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Portulaca grandiflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.