Common Name: MINER'S LETTUCE FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb; generally fleshy. Stem: 1--many, generally glabrous. Leaf: simple, alternate or opposite. Inflorescence: axillary or terminal; cyme, raceme, panicle, umbel, or flower 1. Flower: bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(9), free; petals (1)2--19, free or +- fused; stamens 1--many, epipetalous or not, anthers pink, rose, or yellow; ovary superior, chamber 1, ovules 1--many, placenta basal or free-central; styles (0)1--8, generally fused at base, branched. Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 2--3-valved. Seed: 1--many, shiny or +- pebbly or sculptured, black or gray, generally with oil-filled appendage as food for ants. Genera In Family: +- 22 genera, +- 230 species: generally temperate America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Kerguelen Is, New Zealand, southern Africa, poorly represented in Europe; some cultivated (Lewisia, Calandrinia). Note: All CA genera previously included in Portulacaceae; details of flowers, seeds require 20× magnification. Unabridged Note: May include Hectorellaceae. eFlora Treatment Author: John M. Miller, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Annual, perennial herb, glabrous, +- fleshy, +- aquatic or not, matted or not. Leaf: cauline > 2, alternate or opposite, free, entire. Inflorescence: raceme, 1-sided; lowest flower generally bracted; pedicel recurved, erect in fruit. Flower: petals (3)5, equal or 2 larger, white to pink; stamens (3)5, epipetalous; ovary chamber 1, placentas basal, style 1, stigmas 3. Fruit: valves 3, margins rolled in, forcibly expelling seeds. Seed: 1--3, generally black, smooth to tubercled, appendaged or not. Etymology: (Giuseppe Monti, Italian botanist, 1682--1760) Note: Sometimes divided into 9 genera. eFlora Treatment Author: John M. Miller & Kenton L. Chambers Reference: Heenan 2007 New Zealand J Bot 45:437--439 Unabridged Reference: Miller 2003 FNANM 4:485--488; Moore 1963 Bot Not 116:16--30
Montia parvifolia (DC.) Greene
NATIVE Habit: Perennial herb 5--40 cm; stolon branched, matted, creeping, tips in age erect, densely leafy. Leaf: basal 15--60 mm, narrowly oblanceolate to widely ovate, often sessile, fleshy; leaves of stolons alternate, smaller, much reduced distally on stem, axils generally with easily detached bulblets. Inflorescence: terminal; 1+ flowers bracted; flowers 2--12. Flower: sepals 2--3.5 mm, obovate, obtuse; petals 7--15 mm, equal, pink or white; stamens 5. Fruit: 2--3 mm. Seed: 1--1.5 mm, generally +- smooth (or minute-netted); appendage 0 to << 0.2 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=22,44. Ecology: Moist, rocky slopes, cliffs, creek banks, forest; Elevation: < 2600 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, SN, CCo, SnFrB; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, Montana, Utah. Flowering Time: May--Jul Note: Highly variable; reproduces by bulblets as well as seeds. Jepson eFlora Author: John M. Miller & Kenton L. Chambers Reference: Heenan 2007 New Zealand J Bot 45:437--439 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Montia linearis Next taxon: Moraceae
Botanical illustration including Montia parvifolia
Citation for this treatment: John M. Miller & Kenton L. Chambers 2012, Montia parvifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=34001, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Montia parvifolia:
NW, CaR, SN, CCo, SnFrB
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