Montia dichotoma |
Montia parvifolia |
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dwarf miner's-lettuce, dwarf montia |
little-leaf miner's lettuce, showy rock montia, small-leaf montia, small-leafed montia, streambank springbeauty |
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Habit | Plants annual, not rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or bulbiferous. | Plants perennial, often bul-biferous, with branched caudices, mat forming. |
Stems | erect, branched, 1–10 cm. |
simple erect or ascending, 10–30 cm. |
Leaves | alternate, erect, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths; blade linear, 5–50 × 0.5–2 mm. |
basal and alternate, petiolate; blade oblanceolate, 10–70 × 4–12 mm. |
Inflorescences | terminal, 1-bracteate; bract linear to oblanceolate, 1–6 mm. |
leafy, from apices of fertile caudex branches (determinate) or from leaf axils of shortened fertile caudex (indeterminate), sometimes bulbiliferous in leaf axils. |
Flowers | 4–12; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm; petals 5, white, 1.5–3 mm; stamens 3, anther yellow. |
1–12, showy; sepals 2–3.5 mm; petals 5, pink or white, 6–15 mm; stamens 5, anther pink. |
Seeds | 0.8–1.2 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome absent. |
0.8–1.5 mm; eliaosome rounded, minute, shorter than 0.5 mm, shiny, appearing smooth. |
2n | = 14. |
= 22, 44. |
Montia dichotoma |
Montia parvifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering late spring-mid summer. |
Habitat | Moist or transitional wetland habitat in coastal and inland valleys | Moist or wet soils and rocky cliffs of coastal and inland mountains |
Elevation | 800-1600 m (2600-5200 ft) | 0-2800 m (0-9200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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AK; CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; AB; BC
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Discussion | Montia parvifolia is a variable diploid and tetraploid species. Plants with larger flowers, leaves, and seeds have been treated as var. flagellaris (Bongard) C. L. Hitchcock or as the separate species M. sweetseri Henderson. Because the complex has not been studied using modern methods, and the variation observed in herbarium specimens has no correlated geographical base, I adopt the position of K. L. Chambers (1993) and do not recognize the two above-mentioned taxa at this time. I equate the species situation here to that of M. fontana and choose not to recognize infraspecific taxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 487. | FNA vol. 4. |
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Montia | Portulacaceae > Montia |
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Synonyms | Claytonia dichotoma, Montiastrum dichotomum | Claytonia parvifolia, Naiocrene parvifolia |
Name authority | (Nuttall) Howell: Erythea 1: 36. (1893) | (Mociño ex de Candolle) Greene: Fl. Francisc., 181. (1891) |
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