Water Blinks - native (Montia fontana subsp. chondrosperma)

Family: Portulacaceae (Portulacca Family)

Occurrence. Uncommon. Wet areas.

Most montias are North American Natives. Water Blinks is cosmopolitan.

Identification

• it grows in damp places
• it has paired, more or less oval leaves, and the leaves narrow to a long stalk
• the flowers are small and white and open for only a very short time.

VROTS: poorly known.

The name "water blinks" presumably refers to its usual habitat and to the short time the flowers are open.

Montia: after G Monti, b1682, professor of botany at the Bologna Botanic Gardens.