Montia L.
Glabrous annual to perennial herbs; rosette usually 0. Stems branching, prostrate to ascending, vegetative and reproductive. Lvs many, decussate. Infl. terminal, often overtopped by vegetative shoot and apparently axillary, racemose, cymose, or reduced to a solitary bracteate fl. Sepals persistent. Petals 5, united at base into a short cleft tube. Stamens 3. Ovary superior, of 3 fused carpels; style branches 3. Ovules 3. Capsule 1-locular, dehiscent by 3 valves. Seeds 3.
1 sp., almost cosmopolitan. Naturalised sp. 1.
