Taxon: Portulaca grandiflora Hook.

 
Genus: Portulaca
Family: Portulacaceae
Nomen number: 29451
Place of publication: Bot. Mag. 56: t. 2885. 1829
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 14-may-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 21-jun-2012
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7)
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

  • eleven-o'clock  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
  • Mexican-rose  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
  • moss-rose  (Source: Glea Cron) - English
  • rose-moss  (Source: BSBI) - English
  • sunplant  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
  • pourpier à grandes fleurs  (Source: Zander ed17) - French
  • Portulakröschen  (Source: Zander ed17) - German
  • matsu-ba-botan  (Source: F Okin) - Japanese Rōmaji
  • onze-horas  (Source: F SCatarin) - Portuguese
  • praktportlak  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
  • chaesonghwa  (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay (s.?), Uruguay


    Cultivated (also cult.)

    Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

References:

  1. Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). (BSBI)
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
  5. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 1963 (Glea Cron)
  6. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  7. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
  9. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  10. Reitz, R., ed. Flora ilustrada catarinense. 1965- (F SCatarin)
  11. Walker, E. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  12. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74. 1996, 1999 (L Argent)

Check other web resources for Portulaca grandiflora Hook. :

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=29451. Accessed 4 noviembre 2025.