Blooms: March - July
Habit: herb
Duration: annual,biennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: Alaska to California, east to Greenland and Maine
Habitat: Wet places, sometimes aquatic and floating, low to moderate elevations

Species Description:

General: Delicate annual with slender, weak, decumbent, branching stems 3-20 cm. long, tending to root at the nodes.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, usually several pairs, rhombic-obovate to oblanceolate, 4-15 mm. long and 1-7 mm. wide, narrowed to short petioles.
Flowers: Flowers 3-7 in lax racemes, the pedicels recurved, slender, mostly 3-10 mm. long; sepals 2, 1 mm. long; corolla white, about equal to the sepals, the tube about equal to the 5 lobes, which are often unequal in length and width; stamens 3, attached to the corolla tube; style 1, stigmas 3, elongate
Fruits: Capsule obovoid, 1.5 mm. long.

Montia fontana L.

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Montia fontana specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Montia fontana specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Montia fontana treatment.

E-Flora BC: Montia fontana atlas page.

CalPhotos: Montia fontana images.

USDA Plants Database: Montia fontana.