Taxon: Montia fontana L.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• blinks   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• water-blinks   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• källört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire [e.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Buryatia [s.], Irkutsk [s.], Yakutia-Sakha [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [s.e.], South Australia [s.], Tasmania, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - Arkhangelsk, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Komi, Leningrad, Moscow, Murmansk, Nenets, Novgorod, Tver, Vologda, Yaroslavl
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Nevada, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Fedorov, A. A., ed. 1974–. Florae partis europaeae URSS.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Sotek, Z. et al. 2003. The distribution of Montia fontana L. (Portulacaceae) in Poland. Acta Soc. Bot. Poloniae 72:45–51.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Montia fontana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Montia fontana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Montia fontana.

Check other web resources for Montia fontana L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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