The usual plate herb (Claytonia perfoliata; Syn.: Montia perfoliata), also Cuba spinach or Winterportulak mentioned (in the English linguistic area Miner's lettuce, jump Beauty, or Indian lettuce), is a plant type from the family of the (Portulacaceae). The kind is beheimat original in the west of North America and is in Central Europe a Neophyt.Sie for few years in Central Europe is only cultivated. It is winter hard and therefore occasionally as winter vegetable is used.

Naming

The kind Claytonia became after John Clayton, a biologist 17. Century, designated. The kind designation perfoliata refers to the high sheets of the plant enclosing the Cuba spinach is called the plant because settlers transported it from northwest America into the Karibik, of where it over Australia in the year 1749 to Western Europe was brought. "Miner's lettuce" and "indian lettuce" the usual plate herb finally got the names, because Indians and mine workers nourished themselves of him.

Occurrence

The homeland of the usual plate herb is in the mountain and coastal regions in the west of North America, of the southern Alaska and central British Columbia until Central America. Most frequently it seems Valley and northern San Joaquin Valley in California in the Sacramento. Aufgrung of the import to Australia is to be found it now also in New Zealand.

In Europe there is the usual plate herb in areas the close Netherlands border. It prospers on fields and short-lived weeds corridors and appears after the first violent spring rain.

After Ellenberg usual plate herb is a penumbra to half light plant, it indicates moderate warmth to warmth, freshness, Schwachbasen and nitrogen wealth and stands neither salt nor heavy metal Federal Office for nature protection, FloraWeb. On

Description

It is a fleshy one year's plant, which reaches stature heights of 10 to 30 cm and forms a Rosette. The first are rhombically eggly-shaped, long gestielt fleshy. Later sheets grow together below the bloom conditions in pairs to sheets, which look in such a way, as if will a only one circular sheet of the will break through. These high sheets can become up to 30 cm in the diameter. Above these sheets the blooms in groups from 5 to 40 appear from February to May or June. The small white or rosafarbenen blooms are zwittrig, the are 2 to 4 mm long. The reproduction takes place via self dusting. The Chromosomenanzahl amounts to 2n = 36.

This plant type offers habitat for butterfly crawler-type vehicles of the kinds Annaphila abdita, to A. arvalis, A. diva and Hyles lineataG. S. Robinson and others: HOST - A DATA cousin OF the hostplants OF the world's Lepidoptera. On http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/hostplants/.Die plant cannot due to the unusual sheet forms confounded with other kinds werdenT. S. Elias: Edible game Plants: A North American Field Guide. ISBN 0806974885. Sterling Publishing company Inc. 1990. P. 95.

Subspecies

From the usual plate herb there are four geographically defined subspecies, which separated themselves into North America:

• Claytonia perfoliata ssp. perfoliata. From this subspecies further variants are well-known.
• Claytonia perfoliata ssp. intermontana.
• Claytonia perfoliata ssp. mexicana.
• Claytonia perfoliata ssp. utahensis.

Contents materials

The sheets contain Vitamin C, magnesium, calcium and iron, but little from the unwanted nitrate, which is often with other salad plants a problem.

Cultivation, kitchen, prescriptions

The seeds of the Cuba spinach germinate only at a temperature under 12"°C and therefore in the time of September until March are sown (therefore it "Winterportulak"). The Cuba spinach offered in the trade originates almost exclusively from greenhouses. The harvest is already made in an early stage of growth. If the tender sheets are not too deeply cut off, several harvests are possible in the season from November to April. For storage one puts the fleshy sheets of the usual plate herb loosely into a dish covered with a damp cloth. Thus the sheets remain in the refrigerator with 2 to 4"°C maximally 6 to 8 days haltbarF. Massholder: lebensmittellexikon.de on http://www.lebensmittellexikon.de/k0000240.php.

The usual plate herb is enjoyable nearly in its whole: young sheets, and also blooms know roughly, older sheets rather only cooked verzehrt to become. Raw sheets are in the taste the field salad very similarly, however with fewer flavours. Cooked they taste similarly the spinach.

• Roughly: Are ideal recent sheets, and blooms, if available. Everything together as salad with hardcooked egg halves as well as vinegar and oil.
• Cooked: Cook sheets and in little water to it tenderly become just as short, recent parts at the most 3 to 4 minutes, the washed roots. With butter and little spice a taste develops similarly Wasserkastanien.

Ethnobotanik

The usual plate herb did not only become from California mine workers during gold fever verzehrt. There are vouchers also over the use as food and herb by Indians. So the Shoshonen is to have used the plant in mash envelopes against rheumatism tables pain. The Thompson used it with eye pain and the Mahuna drank the juice with loss of appetite. Over the use as food there is proof with several other E. Moerman: Native American Ethnobotany. ISBN 0881924539. Timber press. 1998. P. 167. On-line data base on http://herb.umd.umich.edu/.

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See also

• List of the vegetables

Related links

• Picture gallery of Lee Dittmann (English)
• Picture gallery of the Oregon State University (English)

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