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Montia diffusa
(Nutt.) Greene
Family:
Montiaceae
Spreading Candy-Flower
FNA
Resources
John M. Miller in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Plants
annual, not rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or bulbiferous.
Stems
spreading, freely branched, 5-20 cm.
Leaves
alternate, petiolate, clasping leaf sheaths absent; blade lanceolate to broadly ovate, more often rhombic to suborbiculate, 20-70 × 10-40 mm.
Inflorescences
leafy.
Flowers
2-8; sepals 1.8-3.5 mm; petals 5, pink or white, 3-5 mm; stamens 5, anther white to yellow.
Seeds
1-1.5 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome present.
2
n
= 16.
Flowering spring-early summer. Moist woods; 0-1200 m; B.C.; Calif., Oreg., Wash.
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This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards
1601697
,
1600981
,
1601393
,
1600976
,
1601429
,
1601101
,
1601503
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