Beschrijving

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Montia fontana, commonly known as blinks or water-blinks, water chickweed or annual water miner’s lettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus . It is a common plant that can be found in wet environments across the globe, from the to the . It is quite variable in morphology, taking a variety of forms. It is sometimes . Aquatic can be or (from a variety of families, including and ). are not vascular plants; rather they are multicellular , and therefore are not typically included among aquatic plants. As opposed to plant types such as and , hydrophytes do not have a problem retaining water, due to the abundance of water in their environment. This means that aquatic plants have less need to regulate , which would require more energy and be of little benefit to the plant.