Montia fontana

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Read about Montia fontana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Montia fontana, Linn. Water or Blinking Chickweed. Blinks. Water-blinks. Densely tufted, very green, weak, diffuse or ascending, 1-6 in. long, freely branching: lvs. spatulate or obovate, mainly obtuse, 1/8 in. broad or less: fls. nodding, solitary and terminal or in a small, loose, leafy-bracted raceme; sepals obtuse, slightly shorter than the petals: caps, globose, nearly 1/8in. diam.—Wet places, Que., Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, mountains of Calif. Summer. Annual, or perennial by rooting at the nodes.


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