English: Spring beauty; Miner's lettuce.
Genus: 26 species.
Region: North America, Central America.
Habitat: moist soils, recently disturbed areas; prefers a cool, damp environment. .
Use: fresh salad green.
BotanyHerb; tender; 1 to 30 cm tall.
Habitat: prefers a cool, damp environment.
Leaves: basal rosette; up to 4 cm long; long petiole; pair of leaves are connected together around the flowering stem, as if one leaf; deep red, when days days get hotter and the leaves dry out; cotyledons are bright green, succulent, long and narrow.
Inflorescence: 5 to 40 flowers.
Flowers: small; pink or white; 5 petals, 2 to 6 mm long; blooming from February to June.
Stem: numerous erect to spreading stems; branching from the base.