Miner’s lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata · Miner’s lettuce family
Plant portrait
A small plant with tender leaves; upper leaves encircle the flower stem.
Harvested part
The leaves and young stems.
What to watch for
Look for the saucer-like leaf surrounding small white flowers on developed plants.
Growth stages of the miner’s lettuce
Plotilo illustrates the miner’s lettuce in 5 stages in 3D: seed, small sprout, young plant, growing and harvest. The models show typical shapes; they do not predict how long growth takes.
- Seed
Starting from a seed. It is shown on the surface to make it visible in this illustration.
- Small sprout
A short first stem and its first small leaves emerge.
- Young plant
The young plant carries more leaves and starts to take its own shape.
- Growing
Leaves and stems develop. Their shape depends on the species.
- Harvest
An illustration of the harvested part. Roots are made visible for clarity; this image does not confirm actual maturity.
Same botanical family
No other plant from the miner’s lettuce family is in the Plotilo catalogue yet.