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§1 Plant
Montia fontana L.
vernacular annual water minerslettuce — species · Portulacaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Portulacaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Montia
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
County-level range
· 26 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 26 counties across 4 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 17 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Bethel 02050
- Bristol Bay 02060
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Dillingham 02070
- Haines 02100
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
Idaho view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MOFO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9004024 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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