Fountain Candy Flower

Montia fontana L. Sp. PI. 87. 1753.*
Montia lam pros perma Cham Linnaea 6 565
Montia fontana lamproperrna 1-Vii/l, Ledeb. PI. ROSS. 2 152. 1843.
Annual, yellowish green in drying; stem 8 25 'in long, decumbent, a cending, "i i r. . I , branched; lea vi I ''in long, thi lowei ipatulate, petioled, the petioles dilated at thi the np) li and more oblong; flowei ad terminal, the terminal ra
1 5-flor illarj Bowei often olitai i mm. long; sepala
rinform, I J mm I obovoid, abot 'l" sepal . eeda ,il t I
thi in Europe ■ no* Greenland to Maine; British Columbia to Ala i i; il •■ in irctii and boreal Baropi
-. pi, ,'. I _'. Rbodora 12 pt.si.f.c.
I iteleui II S 1 134,

Montia minor C. C. Gmel. Fl. Bad. 1: 301. 1805.*
Montia fontana minor Schrad. Fl. Germ. 1: 414. 1806.
Montia fontana Cham. Linnaea 6: 565. 1831. Scarcely M. fontana L. 1753.
Annual, in age yelkwish-green; stem 2.5-10 cm. high, glabrous, spreading, branched, decumbent at the base; leaves opposite, the lower spatulate, 5-15 mm. long, the petioles dilated at the base, the upper oblanceolate or linear; flowers axillary and terminal; terminal racemes 3-8-flowered; pedicels 3-15 mm. long, recurved; sepals reniform, 1.5 mm. long; capsule rounded-obovoid, equaling the sepals; seeds 1.3 mm. long, nearly orbicular, black, dull, under a lens strongly and densely muricate with mostly acute tubercles.
Type locality: Baden, Germany.
Distribution: Oregon and California; also in central and southern Europe and central Asia.