Montias
Montia
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.
21 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Small-leaved Blinks
speciesMontia parvifolia
blinks
speciesMontia fontana
Narrow-leaved Montia
speciesMontia linearis
toadlily
speciesMontia chamissoi
White Purslane
speciesMontia australasica
howell's montia
speciesMontia howellii
Montia sessiliflora
speciesMontia sessiliflora
Montia calycina
speciesMontia calycina
Dwarf Montia
speciesMontia dichotoma
Montia angustifolia
speciesMontia angustifolia
Montia erythrophylla
speciesMontia erythrophylla
Montia racemosa
speciesMontia racemosa
Diffuse Montia
speciesMontia diffusa
Bostock's Montia
speciesMontia bostockii
Montia vassilievii
speciesMontia vassilievii
Montia campylostigma
speciesMontia campylostigma
Montia meridensis
speciesMontia meridensis
Montia drucei
speciesMontia drucei
Montia calcicola
speciesMontia calcicola
Montia biapiculata
speciesMontia biapiculata
Montia minuscula
speciesMontia minuscula
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48790.