Montiaceae
Claytonia perfoliata subsp. perfoliata
Claytonia perfoliata subsp. perfoliata
Also known as Montia perfoliata f. angustifolia, Limnia carnosa, Claytonia perfoliata var. carnosa, Claytonia perfoliata var. angustifolia
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Miners Lettuce · Claytonia · Cool Season · Edible Green · Woodland Plant · Self-Seeding · Native · Spring Ephemeral · Salad Green · Ground Cover
Miner's lettuce is a cool-season native plant that thrives in partial shade with consistently moist, well-drained soil. It self-seeds freely and will naturalize in woodland or shaded garden beds with minimal intervention. Allow it to complete its lifecycle in spring before it dies back in summer heat.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 3 hours
- Watering
- Water to keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged; reduce watering as weather warms · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 18 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White
- Foliage
- Green · Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Argentina South, Arkansas, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Chile South, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Falkland Is., Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Idaho, Italy, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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