Claytonia Perfoliata

Scientific Name: Claytonia perfoliata

Common Name: miner's lettuce

Symbol: CLPE

Category: Dicot

Genus: Claytonia

Family: Portulacaceae

Family Common Name: Purslane family

Order: Caryophyllales

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Duration: Annual, Perennial

Growth Habit: Forb/herb

Native Status: L48 (N), AK (I?), CAN (N)

Flower Color: White

Flower Conspicuous: Yes

Foliage Color: Green

Foliage Texture: Medium

Fruit Color: Brown

Edible: yes

Miner's Lettuce

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Scientific Name: Claytonia perfoliata

Common Name(s): miners lettuce

Edible: yes

Medicinal: no

Parts Used: root

lodestone 20 May, 2014	It can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. Most commonly it is eaten raw in salads, but it is not quite as delicate as other lettuce. Sometimes it is boiled like spinach, which it resembles in taste. Miner's lettuce can sometimes accumulate toxic amounts of soluble oxalates.
Current Rating: 0.0000

steve-rawls 4 Dec, 2017	It is common in California http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/miners_lettuce.html
Current Rating: 0.0000

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