Taxon: Portulaca grandiflora Hook.

Common names:

• eleven-o'clock   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• Mexican-rose   (Source: Websters Dict )
  
• moss-rose   (Source: Glea Cron )
  
• onze-horas   (Source: F SCatarin )
  
• Portulakröschen   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• pourpier à grandes fleurs   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• rose-moss   (Source: BSBI )
  
• sunplant   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

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Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay [s.?]; Uruguay

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Vásquez M., R. et al. 2002. Adiciones a la Flora Peruana: especies nuevas, nuevos registros y estados taxonómicos de las Angiospermas para el Perú. Arnaldoa 9(2):92.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. 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., 1999 (L Argent)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Portulaca grandiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Portulaca grandiflora. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Portulaca grandiflora Hook.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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