The Morton Arboretum
The Field Museum
Chicago Botanic Garden
Additional Partners
Log In
New Account
Sitemap
Home
Search Collections
Map Search
Browse Images
Inventories
Aquatic Invasive Plant Guide
Naturalized flora of The Morton Arboretum
vPlants Checklist
Chicago Region Checklists and Inventories
Interactive Tools
vPlants Dynamic Key
Dynamic Checklist
Dynamic Key
Montia dichotoma
(Nutt.) Howell
Family:
Montiaceae
Dwarf Candy-Flower
FNA
Resources
John M. Miller in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Plants
annual, not rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or bulbiferous.
Stems
erect, branched, 1-10 cm.
Leaves
alternate, erect, not distinctly petiolate, with clasping leaf sheaths; blade linear, 5-50 × 0.5-2 mm.
Inflorescences
terminal, 1-bracteate; bract linear to oblanceolate, 1-6 mm.
Flowers
4-12; sepals 1.5-2.5 mm; petals 5, white, 1.5-3 mm; stamens 3, anther yellow.
Seeds
0.8-1.2 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome absent.
2
n
= 14.
Flowering spring. Moist or transitional wetland habitat in coastal and inland valleys; 800-1600 m; B.C.; Calif., Idaho, Oreg., Wash.
Open Interactive Map
Click to Display
16 Total Images