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Montia bostockii
Also called Bostock's Miner's Lettuce, Bostock's Montia
Bostock's minerslettuce is a small forb native to Alaska and northwestern Canada, closely related to Montia vassilievii and sometimes treated as the same taxon. Sources describe it as a perennial, though Kew lists it as an annual, so growing habit is uncertain.
Montia bostockii, known by the common name Bostock's minerslettuce, is a species in the genus Montia found in Alaska and northwestern Canada.
White Purslane · Montia calycina · Water minerslettuce · Spreading minerslettuce · Annual water minerslettuce · Howell's minerslettuce · Narrowleaf minerslettuce · Littleleaf minerslettuce · Miner's lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Montia bostockii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
