Perky portulaca brightens the garden with festive blooms all summer long. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Portulaca blooms in dry, hot conditions, so it does well in Southern summers and droughts.

Portulaca, also known as moss rose or purslane, is a flowering annual member of the succulent family. This South American native is drought-tolerant and comes in a variety of vibrant colors that can ...

Portulaca often is called moss-rose. Its flowers look like roses and the plant has a creeping growth habit. It is related to purslane or pusley, which was once a weed. Propagated from seeds or ...

The portulaca, also known as the moss rose, is a low-growing flower that is usually grown as an annual. In full sun locations, it may reseed itself, giving it somewhat perennial tendencies, and the ...

Prasannavathani, a homemaker from Neyveli in Tamil Nadu, is busy packing stem cuttings of portulacas and purslanes from her roof-top garden to despatch to Bengaluru, Chennai and Mainpuri (Uttar ...