miner's lettuce , auch: minerslettuce
montia latin

Species in this genus are known generally as miner's lettuce or minerslettuce.

"There's still some miner's lettuce down by the creek," Hattie said, setting a plate before him.

He reached out to touch a tiny pink blossom, the miner's lettuce that had been their only fresh food so much of the winter.

Their diet also included fish as well as Miner's Lettuce.

There were wild morning glories, Canterbury bells, tree tobacco, miner's lettuce.

You get an idea of the passion Elizabeth Schneider has for vegetables when she describes miner's lettuce as "adorable."

Common wildflowers are Shasta lily, miner's lettuce, showy phlox and mountain violet among others.

Montia howellii is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family known by the common name Howell's miner's lettuce.

Named after a botanist, John Clayton, the green was known as miner's lettuce when it was a weed out West.

Ngo om, or rice paddy herb, tastes faintly of miner's lettuce and sorrel.

Phemeranthus (Fameflower) is a genus of flowering plants in the miner's lettuce family, Montiaceae.

At the Union Square Greenmarket last Saturday, chickweed, miner's lettuce and lamb's-quarters were all available.

Claytonia perfoliata (miner's lettuce)

Consider trying some offbeat fall greens, like cold-hardy mache, miner's lettuce or the exotic-flavored shungiku (an edible chrysanthemum).

William's shoulder-slung pouch yielded cat-tail root and succulent greens--the tiny plants Hattie called "miner's lettuce."

The other weekend, I planted mâche (corn salad), claytonia (miner's lettuce), dandelions, mizuna, parsley, spinach, arugula and leaf lettuce.

The American weed colloquially called Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata), widely eaten by miners during the Californian gold rush in 1849, will also be on show.

"He loved to make compost, the physical, hard, exhausting work," said Ms. Gussow, who was more inclined to stake the tomatoes, weed the miner's lettuce, plant the peas on time.

Montia fontana, commonly known as blinks or water-blinks, water brickweed or annual water miner's lettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Montia.

Mr. Bendix is particularly fond of the Miner's lettuce seeds and of a special French tomato variety, which he declined to name, he said, to prevent competitors from growing it.

Claytonia perfoliata, the species for which the term miner's lettuce was coined, is distributed throughout the Mountain West of North America in moist soils and prefers areas which have been recently disturbed.

Although Hattie had been picking the miner's lettuce that grew near the hot springs and Emmet had introduced her to the versatile cat-tail root, she welcomed the variety Buffalo's offerings added to their diet.

Claytonia sibirica (Siberian Spring Beauty, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, Candy Flower or Pink Purslane) is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae, native to Siberia and western North America.

It offers everything from baby eggplants to Asian vegetables, unusual greens like golden purslane and miner's lettuce, a golden rutabaga called York and, for the truly intrepid, scorzonera, a long skinny black-skinned, white-fleshed root that tastes like oysters.

My favorite greens for fall include sylvetta arugula, which has a sharp, peppery taste and easily self-seeds; claytonia, or miner's lettuce, which tolerates frost and will grow all winter in a cold frame; minutina, another cold-hardy green with a crunchy texture.

Related taxa involves 10 genera in Portulacaceae and 9 species in Montia.

A synonym is Montia sibirica.

USDA Plants Profile; Montia parvifolia'

Montia diffusa is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family known by the common names branching montia and spreading miner's lettuce.

Montia fontana, commonly known as blinks or water-blinks, water brickweed or annual water miner's lettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Montia.