TY! I had read your article before posting, and am glad you are here to help.
A couple of the pics that helped fuel my confusion while looking at the P. grandiflora entry in the database are yours. The foliage is not spiky, flowers not double. Why are these not P. umbraticola? What am I missing?
Are other species part of this "moss rose" confusion? I don't think the author of the blog I linked was addressing the whole Portulaca genus, and I'm not asking about that either, just the confusion over "moss roses" (which never would have cropped up if not for common names.) I have P. pilosa but most people don't appreciate or even notice plants/flowers that small, I rescued it from a crack in a parking lot that was about to be resurfaced. I've never seen any other kind of Portulaca (besides P. grandiflora and P. umbraticola) for sale - or have I? There are a couple other Portulaca species in the plant database here that show pics of perfectly attractive plants, but none with flowers that look like moss roses.
Thanks!
