miner's lettuce
miner's lettuce
nounDefinition of MINER'S LETTUCE
: a glossy green herb (Montia perfoliata syn. Claytonia perfoliata) of the purslane family especially of western North America that produces racemes of pink to white flowers subtended by a disk of two leaves united around the stem and is used as a salad green
First Known Use of MINER'S LETTUCE
1897
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