Portulaca grandiflora Hook.
Detail
- Family
- Portulacaceae
- Botanical Name
- Portulaca grandiflora Hook.
- Common Name
- Rose-moss
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- in Taxa Not Treated: Waifs
- Comments
- Cited from Virginia by Matthews & Levins in Castanea 50:99 (1985); details unknown, as well as from Essex County by Fernald in Rhodora 44: 394 (1942) as a "stray from cultivation"; these two records not mapped. Records based on specimens at GMUF, VCU, and WILLI are mapped.
- Habitat
- Lawns, sandy river shores, and waste places. Rare escape from cultivation.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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