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Montia
Also called Water Chickweed, Montias, Blinks, Minerslettuce
Montia is a genus of plants in the family Montiaceae. Species in this genus are known generally as miner's lettuce or water chickweed. All of the species in the genus have edible leaves. It is found worldwide, except in Asia.
Montias are known from fossilized seeds recovered from sediments of the Pleistocene Tomales Formation and from a small paleoflora at San Bruno. Further, Daniel Axelrod discussed Montia howellii as one of the biogeographically significant species comprising the Millerton paleoflora at Tomales.
White Purslane · Bostock's minerslettuce · Montia calycina · Water minerslettuce · Spreading minerslettuce · Annual water minerslettuce · Howell's minerslettuce · Narrowleaf minerslettuce · Littleleaf minerslettuce
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