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miner's lettuce

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min·er's lettuce  (mnrz)
n.
See winter purslane.
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Noun1.miner's lettuce - succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herbminer's lettuce - succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America
Cuban spinach, Montia perfoliata, winter purslane
Indian lettuce - a plant of the genus Montia having edible pleasant-tasting leaves
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The understory is rife with sword ferns, false lily-of-the-valley, miner's lettuce and cow parsnip.
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Vanessa and Tom suggest these additions to your salads: crunchy kohlrabi, a few fresh-snipped herbs, some wild and vitamin-rich chickweed, roasted walnuts or pecans, miner's lettuce, crumbled goat cheese and hard-boiled eggs.
Saladfest 2009: Ruth Gonzalez checks out the local lettuces and ... by Gonzalez, Ruth / New Life Journal
Claytonia, Miner's lettuce also known as winter purslane (Montia Perfoliata) forms cup-shaped rosettes, with tiny, white, funnel shaped flowers.
There's more to salads than iceberg lettuce! by Fritzinger, Dori / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
 
 
 
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