Herb
Winter Purslane
B tier
Winter purslane is often claytonia (miner’s lettuce) rather than Portulaca—cool-season, delicate, mild green with round leaves cupped on the stem. Listed under purslane primaries by common-name habit; flavour is softer and less mucilaginous than true purslane. Use as a winter salad green. Do not expect Portulaca’s lemon-succulent punch.
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Unit
Characteristics
Preparations
Cool GreenhouseRaw MildWinter Salad
Traits
Cool SeasonDelicateMildOften ClaytoniaWinter Salad
History
US
Miners and settlers ate claytonia as winter purslane or miner’s lettuce.
Seed lists sometimes sold claytonia as winter purslane.
Winter salad growers revived claytonia under the winter purslane name.
Chefs distinguished winter purslane (claytonia) from summer Portulaca.