Montia fontana

Montia fontana, commonly known as blinks or water blinks, water chickweed or annual water miner's lettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Montia. It is a common plant that can be found in wet environments around the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic. It is quite variable in morphology, taking a variety of forms. It is sometimes aquatic.

"Blinks" redirects here. For the action, see Blinking. For the K-pop group with this fandom name, see Blackpink. For other uses, see Blink (disambiguation).

Montia fontana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Montia
Species:
M. fontana
Binomial name
Montia fontana
Synonyms[2]
  • Calandrinia cerrateae Añon
  • Calandrinia pusilla Barnéoud
  • Cameraria fontana Moench
  • Claytonia fontana (L.) R.J.Davis
  • Claytonia hallii A.Gray
  • Claytonia pusilla (Barnéoud) Kuntze
  • Montia alsine-facie Gilib.
  • Montia arvensis Wallr.
  • Montia chaberti Gand.
  • Montia clara Ö. Nilsson
  • Montia decumbens St.-Lag.
  • Montia dipetala Suksd.
  • Montia erecta Steud.
  • Montia funstonii Rydb.
  • Montia hallii (A. Gray) Greene
  • Montia lamprosperma Cham.
  • Montia linearifolia d'Urv.
  • Montia major Steud.
  • Montia pentandra Willd. ex Cham.
  • Montia stenophylla Rydb.
  • Montia tenella Steud.
  • Montia terrestris Dumort.

Montia fontana is divided into four subspecies, subsp. fontana, subsp. amporitana, subsp. chondrosperma and subsp. variabilis[3][4]

In some countries like Spain it is consumed as salad and it is highly demanded in markets and restaurants specialized in foraged foods like wild mushrooms.

References
  1. Lansdown, R.V. (2014). "Montia fontana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T164123A63307717. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T164123A63307717.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 8 May 2016
  3. Moore, D. M. 1963. The subspecies of Montia fontana L. Bot. Not. 116: 16-30.
  4. Walters, S. M. 1953. Montia fontana L. Watsonia 3: 1-6.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Montia fontana.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.