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Littleleaf minerslettuce

Montia parvifolia

Also called Small Leaved Blinks, Little Leaved Candyflower, Little Leaved Miner's Lettuce, Little Leaved Montia, Small Leaved Miner's Lettuce, Small Leaved Montia, Little Leaf Montia

Littleleaf minerslettuce
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Montiaceae (Monti family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
S. Alaska to N. Utah and N. California
Climate
temperate

About

Montia parvifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae known by the common names little-leaf miner's lettuce, small-leaved blinks and small-leaved montia. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Montana, where it grows in moist to wet areas in several types of mountain habitat.

Other Montia plants

White Purslane · Bostock's minerslettuce · Montia calycina · Water minerslettuce · Spreading minerslettuce · Annual water minerslettuce · Howell's minerslettuce · Narrowleaf minerslettuce · Miner's lettuce

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Montia parvifolia 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.

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