Flora of North America species comparison

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Montia dichotoma

dwarf miner's-lettuce, dwarf montia
Habit Plants annual, not rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or bulbiferous.
Stems

erect, branched, 1–10 cm.
Leaves

alternate, erect, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths;

blade linear, 5–50 × 0.5–2 mm.
Inflorescences

terminal, 1-bracteate;

bract linear to oblanceolate, 1–6 mm.
Flowers

4–12;

sepals 1.5–2.5 mm;

petals 5, white, 1.5–3 mm;

stamens 3, anther yellow.
Seeds

0.8–1.2 mm, tuberculate;

elaiosome absent.
2n

= 14.

Montia dichotoma
Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Moist or transitional wetland habitat in coastal and inland valleys
Elevation 800-1600 m (2600-5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 487.
Parent taxa Portulacaceae > Montia
Sibling taxa
M. bostockii, M. chamissoi, M. diffusa, M. fontana, M. howellii, M. linearis, M. parvifolia
Synonyms Claytonia dichotoma, Montiastrum dichotomum
Name authority (Nuttall) Howell: Erythea 1: 36. (1893)
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