[Miners Lettuce and Springbeauties: The Genus Claytonia in the Mountains and Deserts of the American Southwest]

Green Miner's Lettuce, Streambank Springbeauty

Claytonia parviflora ssp. viridis

Synonyms: Montia spathulata var. tenuifolia; Montia spathulata var. viridis

Green Miner's Lettuce, Streambank Springbeauty: Claytonia parviflora ssp. viridis (Synonyms: Montia spathulata var. tenuifolia; Montia spathulata var. viridis)

Green Miner's Lettuce, Streambank Springbeauty: Claytonia parviflora ssp. viridis (Synonyms: Montia spathulata var. tenuifolia; Montia spathulata var. viridis)

Green miner's lettuce as seen under rocks along a desert wash in Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, several miles southwest of Borrego Springs, CA........March 29, 2011. Narrow-leaved miner's lettuce (Claytonia parviflora ssp. parviflora) was also found intermingled with this population.
Paul Slichter