can anyone identify this flower?

Question

http://www.semegraph.com/flower.jpg

I live in Florida. I bougth a different flower from home depot, and this plant was a little sprout in the same flowerpot. It is now bigger than the plant I actually purchased, and it has gorgeous blooms, and tolerates drought extremely well. I want to find more of these.

Answer 1

Looks like a single-flowered variety of Portulaca also called Moss Rose, Family: Portulacaceae, Purslane Likes hot and dry sites as in rock gardens, along paved surfaces, over walls; border fronts, massing, containers; native to South America: Seeds are sown direct, or indoors 4-6 weeks before planting out
http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/annportu.html

Take a look at Portulaca villosa:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~eherring/hawnprop/por-vill.htm

http://www.mgonlinestore.com/Portulaca/conventionalportulaca02.jpg

This Portulaca looks similar ( picture on top right of page):
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/161456/

Gurneys sales the double flowered variety seeds here:
http://gurneys.com/search.asp?eid=092906GUY&ss=Moss+Rose&sid=504250&bhcd2=1191367687

Park Seed Co. sells several varieties here:
http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?jspStoreDir=Park&SearchUnion=N&catalogId=10066&mainPage=textsearchresults&cid=ppp000605y&langId=-1&s_kwcid=TC-1186-%7bOVKWID%7d-%7bovmtc%3aS%3aS%3aC%7d-%7bOVADID%7d&SearchText=rose+moss&storeId=10101

Good Luck! Hope this is helpful.

Answer 2

Portulaca (AKA moss rose, rose moss)
You can find this plant garden center or nursery. It is in the succulent family and loves dry hot weather. It does not like much water and the flowers absolutely hate to get wet. They practically melt if you water over head. When you do water try to keep the water on the soils surface. Anyhow, it will die away in the winter, but tends to reseed itself freely. What I like about it is that you can break off pieces and just toss them on the soil where you want it to grow and it will root right there. I got a freebee of portulaca in one of my garden plants too. I also got a wandering jew plant that way as well.
Good Luck and have fun.

Here is the burpee site where you can buy the seed. All you have to do is throw it on the soil and it will grow. Most portulaca come in multicolor so finding that particular one all by itself will be next to impossible, but if you like loads of color these will work beautifully.
http://www.burpee.com/category/annual+flowers/portulaca.do
Here is a site that sells individual colors:
http://www.swallowtailgardenseeds.com/annuals/portulaca.html

Answer 3

is it growin kinda like a ground cover, reaching out, and low growing? could be pinks. a member of the Dianthus family. If so it is a perennial. i've grown them before. they are pretty hardy. So you got a bonus free plant and a mystery of what it is...cool!

Answer 4

It appears to be rose moss. It usually is more dense than this. It will cover the area where you have it planted and it will return.

Answer 5

It looks like a type of ground cover but can't come up with the name right now and it's driving me nuts! I'm sure someone will come up with the name soon.

Answer 6

I think it is Portulaca. It could be Ice Plant, though...?