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|accepted_name=Portulaca grandiflora
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Mag.
|place=56: plate 2885. 1829
|year=1829
}}
|common_names=Moss-rose
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Portulacaceae;Portulaca;Portulaca grandiflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Portulacaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Portulaca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Portulaca grandiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 496, 497
|treatment_page=page 498
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; roots fibrous. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to suberect; trichomes conspicuous at nodes and in inflorescence; branches to 30 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blades linear to lanceolate, terete to hemispheric, 5–30 × 1–5 mm, apex acute or subacute; involucrelike leaves 8–9(–14). <b>Flowers</b> 25–55 mm diam.; petals pink, red, purple, yellow, bronze, or white, obovate, 15–25 × 15–20 mm; stamens 40 or more; stigmas 5–8. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, (3.5–)4–6.5 mm diam. <b>Seeds</b> steely gray, often iridescent, orbiculate or elongate, flattened, 0.75–1 mm diam.; surface cells obscurely stellate with tubercles mostly abaxially. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy soils
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;South America;naturalized in Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Portulaca grandiflora</i> is naturalized in gardens and has escaped to roadsides and waste places. Studies of seed surfaces from specimens representing 100 years of collections with distribution over the United States show remarkable consistency in seed morphology. Tubercles may extend onto the lateral surface, where they are widely scattered. Only one specimen was found with no tubercles at all.</p>
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name=Portulaca grandiflora
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Portulacaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy soils
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ariz.;Ark.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;Nev.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.;South America;naturalized in Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Mag.
|publication year=1829
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_1013.xml
|genus=Portulaca
|species=Portulaca grandiflora
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