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Montia linearis
Also called Linear Leaved Candyflower, Linear Leaved Montia, Narrow Leaf Montia, Narrow Leaved Miner's Lettuce, Narrow Leaved Montia, Narrowleaf Montia, Narrowleaf Miner's Lettuce
Montia linearis is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common names narrowleaf miner's lettuce and narrow-leafed montia. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it grows in moist to wet areas in a number of habitat types, including forests and meadows, woodlands and grassland. The plant is also known from some areas of the southeastern United States, including Mississippi.
White Purslane · Bostock's minerslettuce · Montia calycina · Water minerslettuce · Spreading minerslettuce · Annual water minerslettuce · Howell's minerslettuce · Littleleaf minerslettuce · Miner's lettuce
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Montia linearis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
