| Scientific Name: | Portulaca grandiflora |
| Common Name: | portulaca |
| Family Name: | Portulacaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Succulent or Cacti |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Weeping |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Succulent, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, lanceolate, most 9-19mm long x 2-3mm wide, succulent, tubular, long hairs towards the base, margin entire; flowers solitary, 4-6cm wide. | |