Friday, April 23, 2021

A year of flowers #9: Miner's lettuce

Claytonia perfoliata

Miner's lettuce is evidently closely related to the Claytonia parviflora I posted the other day, here growing in the dappled shade of a Ponderosa pine.  I have never tried to eat the other Claytonia, though I think it's edible, but this one is tasty.  I think it tastes just like butter lettuce, which of course is how it earned its common name.

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